Girls' name · peaked in 1927

Mavis name popularity since 1925

18,392 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Mavis. Half of them were born in 1946 or earlier, so the typical Mavis is about 80 years old in 2026. Mavis peaked in 1927 as the #270 name for girls, and it ranked #561 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 18,392; Named Mavis, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1927; #270 for girls that year
Typical age: About 80; Median birth year 1946
In 2025: #561; for girls in 2025 (537 babies)
Girls / boys: 99.6% girls; 18,310 girls · 82 boys
Most popular in: North Dakota; 12.99× its national share

Peak year is the year Mavis made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Mavis births per year, 1925–2025

1927 was the biggest year for Mavis both by count and as a share of all babies.

Steepest fall: Between 1937 and 1942, Mavis's share of baby girls fell by 50%, from 1 in 2,350 to 1 in 4,690.
Fastest rise: Between 2013 and 2018, it became 1.9× more common, from 1 in 10,500 baby girls to 1 in 5,600.

Shaded on the chart. Both compare Mavis's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Mavis.

Decade by decade

Babies named Mavis in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	2,825	25	–
1930s	4,508	42	#304
1940s	2,697	10	#477
1950s	1,722	0	#726
1960s	987	5	#1,299
1970s	335	0	#2,782
1980s	176	0	#5,560
1990s	131	0	#6,498
2000s	128	0	#9,244
2010s	2,097	0	#1,004
2020–25	2,704	0	#561

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000.

Generation fingerprint

40.1% of babies named Mavis from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Silent Generation years (1928–1945). The full split by generation:

Where Mavis is most popular

The index compares Mavis's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Mavis.

State	Index	Babies
North Dakota	12.99×	614
South Dakota	11.22×	536
Minnesota	4.90×	1,339
Mississippi	4.37×	793
Alabama	3.58×	950

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Mavis's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Mavis.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Mavis (1927).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data