Mavis (first name)
Mavis is a female given name.
Origin and meaning
Mavis is an English name, meaning: song thrush
Well-known namesake
- Mavis Gallant (1922–2014), Canadian, English-speaking journalist and writer
- Mavis Henderson (born around 1917), English badminton player
- Mavis Horsburgh (* around 1910; † 20th or 21st century), Australian badminton player
- Mavis Kerr (* around 1918), New Zealand badminton player
- Mavis Lever (1921–2013), British cryptanalyst
- Mavis Macnaughton (1911 - † 20th century), Irish badminton player
- Mavis Rivers (1929-1992), Samoan singer
- Mavis Staples (* 1939), American blues and soul singer
Individual evidence
- ↑ BROCKHAUS, THE GREAT FIRST NAME LEXICON, FA Brockhaus, Gütersloh / Munich, 2013, p. 143.