Mavis

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This is the name we have for our daughter who is due next week.
We haven't told any friends or family yet. I was very confident of our choice but now am having last minute nerves about it.
What do you think? Nobody remembers the Coronation Street Mavis, do they?
Honest opinions please. I don't think I will change my mind, but want to be prepared for reactions whatever they may be.
Dc1 is Annabel and nearly everybody has always liked this, so will want dd to have the same nice experience if possible.

I have nursed a lot of elderly ladies called Mavis,so I am afraid it is forever stuck in my mind as an old lady name.

I am just some random person wittering on t'internet though,if you love it go for it.

Good luck with your new baby

Please don't name your DD2 Mavis. It is really not a name for a 2009 baby. There are so many gorgeous, unusual, individual names for your DD. Good Luck.

It's not awful imo, but doesn't really go with Annabel

I honestly think that Mavis will grow up being really envious of Annabel's pretty and normal name.

Dodgy ground, on a serious note I think most parents strive to treat their offspring equally and I don't think it's fair to give one a normal name and one a dodgy one.

A mavis is a bird I think[blackbird?thrush?]there is a Burns poem/song which has the lines:
I have heard the mavis singing
A lovesong to the moon
It's a pretty name I think.

I agree it's not fair to call dd1 such a pretty name as Annabel, and your dd2 sech an unusual name as Mavis.

I would think again, sorry.

noooooooooooo

Not overly keen and I like the old fashioned names, both my DS's have them.

I think you need to expect that you may not have a postive reaction from family etc, but don't let that stop you!!!

I would prefer Maeve, Mavis makes me think of Corrie

really really adorable
maeve too popular

mavis über cool

nooooo, nooooooo noooooo!

mavis was either a dithering fool in corrie or the name mentioned in every Mansun song including stripper vicar.....

sorry but really not keen! love old fashioned names - DD has one - but not that one!

I love it.

Little Mavis!

Good luck!

I really like it, but then again I would say that

I like it a lot. I suspect lots of people won't, though.

No-it goes with Muriel,Mabel,Maud and Mildred-all dreadful.

I like Mavis - cute for a girl and elegant for a woman - but then I've never watched Coronation Street...

Ooooh Well I don't really know.....

i think maeve would work better personally cos its seen as less of an "old lady name"
but i have seen people use mabel, so if your that set on mavis im sure you could get away with it, its on the same lines as mabel i think

Maeve is definitely a prettier name. I'd never have said Mavis was cute or an elegant name.

I've never seen Corrie either, but I think everyone knows the 'I don't really knowww' connection because of Les Dennis!

Its awful sorry

I'm afraid I do remember the Coronation St Mavis, and since then have always wondered how babies can be called Mavis (unless born with blond curls and giant earrings).
Sorry, not my cup of tea, but your choice.

Mavis is gorgeous! It's got the trendy 'v' and the 'is' ending, what more could you want? People will love it on baby and won't think of anything but her.

I think it's awful. Some old lady names should be left firmly in the past. Ethel and Mavis being two of the key ones.

I think people should ask some of these old ladies what they think about their names first! I know a Mavis, Freda, Elsie and a Hilda and they all hate them and always have!