Baby name
RISING
🇦🇹 🇩🇪 🇮🇪 Mavie
/MAH · vee/
Meaning
“Possibly song thrush, or my life”
Name sources give Mavie two different word stories. One traces it to 'mavis', the English and Old French word for the song thrush, whose own root may be Celtic; this ties Mavie closely to the already-established name Mavis, which comes from the same word. The other reads Mavie as the French phrase 'ma vie', meaning 'my life'. Mavie itself is used as a modern, stand-alone given name rather than a long-established traditional one.
Nicknames
may · mav · vie · vivi
Vibe
playful
How it ages.
A short, modern-sounding name that feels fresh rather than classic; likely to read as contemporary for years to come.
The cultural moment.
Rare overall; most familiar in Austria and Germany, where it has a light, contemporary feel.