5 ms·

American here. It is a totally weird name.

• casion 6y ago
  Where are you from? I'm from the "deep south", and I find it to be a perfectly reasonable name.
  • geoduck14 6y ago
    Dallas, TX I don't know any Mavises
• stan_rogers 6y ago
  It's just an old name that's a couple-three generations out of fashion. It was a common-enough name for older female characters in 1960s sitcoms, so for a lot of HN types it would likely be a great-grandmother-era name.