Maverick

Meanings

Proper Noun

• Any of several individual secondary school and sports team mascot, most of which are in the United States.

Noun

• A member of one of the sports teams with a mascot called Maverick.
• Someone who attends, or has attended in the past, one of these schools, especially one involved in the sports teams.

Origin

• Likely a Welsh surname, from mawr rwyce, "great hero." Compared to this are the surnames Morris, Morrice, and Maurice. However, alternatively from Hebrew מבריק ("brilliant, shiny").