Maevis
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 9 babies a year in England and Wales.
Maevis by the numbers
In 2025, 9 babies in England and Wales were named Maevis. In the US, 16 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.
What we can tell you about Maevis
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Maevis. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Mavissongbird thrush336 in the US (2017)
- Maevieintoxicating one; diminutive of Maeve17 in England and Wales (2025)
- Mayvis19 in the US (2017)
- Maeveshe who intoxicates; a warrior queen1,330 in England and Wales (2025)
- Marisof the sea; maritime62 in the US (2017)
- Maevynintoxicating one; modern spelling of Maeve17 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Maevis
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