What was Anna Jarvis's middle name?

Anna Jarvis's middle name was Marie.

Her full birth name was Anna Maria Jarvis. She was born on May 1, 1864, in Webster, Taylor County, West Virginia, to Granville E. Jarvis and Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis. The shared “Maria” name also reflects the naming pattern in her family: her mother’s name was Ann Maria Reeves.

Anna is best known as the founder of the modern U.S. Mother's Day movement. After her mother died in 1905, she promoted a day honoring mothers and organized the influential 1908 observance at Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton, West Virginia. Her campaign eventually helped secure national recognition in 1914.

The answer is sometimes confused with Reeves, which was her mother’s maiden name, not Anna’s middle name. Louise and May also appear in names associated with other people or dates connected with the holiday, but neither is part of Anna Jarvis’s standard full name. Her name is generally rendered as Anna Maria Jarvis in biographical sources.