Avis

Where Avis comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Avis.

Avis through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #449 among girls, with 14 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1912
    Peak, #238
    358 babies named Avis, its best rank.
  3. 1923
    Avis Bunnage born
    British actress
  4. 1938
    Avis McIntosh born
    New Zealand hurdler
  5. 1941
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #559.
  6. 2017
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Avis Bunnage · British actress, 1923–1990
  • Avis McIntosh · New Zealand hurdler, 1938–2025
  • Avis DeVoto · US book editor, 1904–1989
  • Avis Higgs · New Zealand textile designer and artist, 1918–2016
  • Avis Crocombe · English cook, 1835–1927

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.