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Opinions on Mia and one other please

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mogchristmasegg · 18/06/2016 17:48

Two options, quite different, bot names have featured in our families:

Mia. I love it but...... is it too short, too 'common' as in trendy, to meek for an adult or too curtsey?

Lizzie. Full name Elizabeth / Elisabeth. I know there could be hundreds of nn for Elizabeth but what about Lizzie?

thanks.

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Honeybee79 · 20/06/2016 22:32

Elizabeth/Lizzie every time. It's classic and will age well (unlike Mia imho), plus loads of options for shortening/varying as she grows up.

Mia is v trendy where I live too (London) but I just don't see it aging well as a name.

SuddenBeetE · 20/06/2016 18:59

My DD is Mia Catherine. It doesn't bother me that people think it's 'common.' I must be working class then!

Only ever met one other little Mia, and DH works with one in her 30's who is fab, so I think it works across the ages.

icecoldlemons · 20/06/2016 16:24

I can't stand Lizzie

TheyreBreakingThrough · 20/06/2016 16:16

I have an Elisabeth. Her teacher started calling her Lizzie when she was in reception, without my knowledge, so that is what she is now known as at school.
She prefers to be called her full name, but I have about 5 different nicknames for her, none of them are Lizzie.
She is 10 and was the only Elisabeth in her school until last September, when an Elizabeth started in reception.
She likes her name.

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Buttwing · 20/06/2016 13:50

I like Lizzie. My daughter is called Mia she is 11 and in a large primary school (3 classes in each year) there is one other Mia in whole school. There are loads of Amelia's. We live in a very middle class area in Cheshire if that makes a difference.

handonhip · 20/06/2016 13:37

Love Elizabeth/Lizzie.

Teladi · 20/06/2016 12:44

Agree Maia is nicer than Mia. I don't have good associations with Mia as when I was growing up people I communicated with used it as a way of referring to their eating disorder - 'living with Ana, living with Mia'.

Elizabeth / Lizzie - both lovely!

CourtJester · 20/06/2016 12:39

Can i say neither?

For the Mia option - i prefer Maia (My-ah) although i know a wonderful 20yo Mia who suits her name very well, so i personally think it suiters adults as well as children

For the Lizzie option - I prefer Eliza, either as a name on it's own, or short for Elizabeth. If it is just on it's own i guess you could use Liz/Lizzie as a nn too. I dont know any Lizzie's personally, but it seems very 90s to me?

Chinks123 · 20/06/2016 12:24

Grin at Mia being a "common in both senses of the word" name.
Yes it's common as in popular but I don't believe it is in any other sense. Why would it bother you if 'a lot of working class families' used the name Confused

verite · 20/06/2016 12:18

I love both Mia and Maya as names but for various reasons could not use them ourselves. If we could they would have definitely been on our short list.

JenniferAnistonsHair · 19/06/2016 20:43

I like both Amelia & Elizabeth, but would probably choose Elizabeth as it's not quite as popular as Amelia. I think I prefer Betsy as a nickname for Elizabeth though. Or even Eliza...

someonescj · 19/06/2016 20:24

Maya

Lottiedaydreambeliever2014 · 19/06/2016 17:24

I don't really like Mia, being an infant teacher I have taught several over the last few years so it's very much a name of the decade and a bit plain. Elizabeth nn Lizzie will age much better.

Mottled · 19/06/2016 17:09

There is Mia Tindal so it is not just popular with the working class. I like both but they are very different, know a lot of Lizzies/Liz and they are all 25 plus whereas the Mias are all under 10.

purplefox · 19/06/2016 16:35

Elizabeth

NauticalIce · 19/06/2016 16:25

Mia is nicer

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mogchristmasegg · 19/06/2016 16:12

Sorry could I bump for some more views?

Possibly:

Amelia / Mia v.
Elizabeth /Lizzie?

Thanks
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mogchristmasegg · 18/06/2016 23:39

Melissa is quite lovely.

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MoggieMaeEverso · 18/06/2016 23:35

Melissa? Nickname could be Lizzie... Or Lissie, or Lissa, or even Mia.

MadameJosephine · 18/06/2016 23:21

Definitely Elizabeth, although personally I prefer Libby to Lizzie

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mogchristmasegg · 18/06/2016 23:18

I like Ava but am not too keen on Sienna, Summer, or Evie. Mia is a traditional name (i think) in scandinavia but a more recent trend in the UK.

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mogchristmasegg · 18/06/2016 23:14

ah, thanks Drama, your friend sounds great.

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EllenDegenerate · 18/06/2016 23:13

Mia is very popular with working class communities around here, NW.
It depends if that bothers you or not. Its too popular to be considered bohemian. To me its on a par with Sienna, Summer, Ava, Evie etc.

Elisabeth is simply classic. Used but not over used by all segments of society. I think its the modtw beautiful of the classic names.

DramaAlpaca · 18/06/2016 23:10

The grown up Lizzie I know is a good friend of mine. She's very cool & bohemian, a real free spirit, so I associate the name with those characteristics.

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