New name

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

Here's a name I'd never encountered before: Mavis.
It's a girl's name of French origin, meaning "song thrush", which is the song bird Turdus Philomelos. It's supposed to be pronounced MAY-viss, as rhyming with Davis, but my reaction would be to read it as MAV-iss, rhyming with Travis.

I really like it in the latter version, also because it makes me think of "Ma vis" which could roughly be translated into "my strength", borrowing "ma" from french (my) and "vis" from latin (strength)

WDYT?

Comments

[harinakshi.livejournal.com]

I've encountered Mavis before. Not on an actual person. But it's more of a South joke. Like, the redneck named Mavis, but as a boy name. And you have to say it like a redneck southern idiot...so I have a really hard time seeing it as a nice name, it's just horrible in my head.

[monkey-fruit.livejournal.com]

Pretty much this. =/