Mavie
Feminine · “my life”
Mavie reads as French for my life — ma vie — and it is also a spelling of Mavis, the old English word for a song thrush.
How old is the name Mavie?
Mavie first appears in US birth records in 1920 — 105 years ago. Mavie is overwhelmingly a brand-new baby name right now — most Mavies are still in diapers. About 400 people named Mavie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Mavie most popular?
Mavie peaked in 2024, reaching #1056 nationally. Today it ranks #1548, 492 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Mavie
Our story of Mavie is a story of two readings arriving at one spelling. A family that sees French sees ma vie and hears a small declaration. A family that knows Mavis sees a shortening of a Victorian bird-name. Neither is wrong, and the American registers cannot tell them apart: Mavie appears in the 2010s alongside Maeve, Mavis and Mabel, all rising together, and each bearer's family brought their own reason. That is a real origin, even if it is two.
Meaningscholars disagree
my life; song thrush
Two routes. Read as the French ma vie, 'my life', which is how many American families take it. Or as a form of Mavis, from the Old French mauvis, the song thrush — a genuine English bird word that Marie Corelli used as a name in 1895. Neither is documented as the source of this exact spelling.
Pronouncing Mavie
MAY-vee
Two syllables, stress on the first. A French reading would be mah-VEE with the stress at the end.
Nicknames for Mavie
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1920
- Most girls named
- 2024236 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1056reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −42.4%136 in 2025, from 236
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Mavie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Mavis in English — related form
- Mavie in French — same name
- Mavi in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Massachusetts, Texas, Florida.
Mavies among us
people named Mavie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 11,818 born in 2025 was named Mavie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Shemeka test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Mavie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Shemeka climbed just as high around 1979, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Shemeka's path sketches the road Mavie is walking now.
Mavie is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Mavie is headed
Mavie is on a steep climb — if the curve holds, 2030 could see around 506% more babies given the name than today. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Mavie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Mavie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Both readings are attractive — a declaration in one, a songbird in the other.
- Mavis behind it is a genuine English bird word with a documented literary use.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- The origin is genuinely split and neither route is documented for this spelling.
- Maeve and Mavis are both close enough to cause confusion.
- It is very new and will need spelling out.
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Frequently asked
- How many Mavies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 400 people named Mavie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Mavie in 2025?
- Mavie ranks #1548 among US girl names in 2025, with 136 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Mavie?
- About 1 in every 11,818 US girls born in 2025 was named Mavie — 136 in all.
- Will my child share the name Mavie with classmates?
- Mavie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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