Mavise as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Mavise

What is the meaning of the name Mavise ?

The baby name Mavise is a Female name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced MAY-vees or MAY-vis (ˈmeɪviːs / ˈmeɪvɪs).

Mavise is English in Origin.

Mavise is a rare modern feminine given name, most often treated as an embellished variant of Mavis. Mavis comes from Old French mauvis, the “song thrush,” adopted into English as a poetic bird-name and taken up as a given name in the late 19th and early 20th centuries - its rise helped by Marie Corelli’s 1895 novel The Sorrows of Satan. While Mavis peaked in Britain and the United States in the 1920s–40s, Mavise appears sporadically from the late 20th century as a fresher, French-leaning spelling. The core meaning remains “song thrush,” evoking melody, birdsong, and springtime.

Variants and short forms include Mavis (standard), Mavys, and Mavi; it is sometimes confused with Irish Maeve (Medb), which is etymologically unrelated. The name also resembles Turkish Maviş, an affectionate form from mavi “blue,” occasionally romanized as Mavis/Mavise, though this represents a separate origin.

⚙ Mavise is an extremely rare name. Across our dataset of national birth registries and international name records, Mavise appears only 18 times in total — found in 10 countries. If you're considering it, you'd be giving your child a name almost nobody else has.