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Pia.....yes or no?

94 replies

Leannabanana · 20/03/2009 18:36

is this a nice name for a little girl?

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gagamama · 23/03/2009 15:23

What about when you want to yell at her to stop her doing something? "PIA, NO!" I think I'd feel like a proper nutter, personally!

I don't like it, no.

Stilla · 23/03/2009 12:36

I like it - I have a Finnish friend called Pia

stickylittlefingers · 23/03/2009 12:33

Do German Pias have trouble with the name - being called PiPi etc?

FWIW, I wouldn't say I loved it, but it's OK. Nice and short (as someone who has to write out her own name an awful lot, I wish I were called Pia Potts, just to save time!)

MitchyInge · 23/03/2009 12:29

it's sweet, I like it

Gorionine · 23/03/2009 12:24

I have an Italian aunt called Pia, I always thought it was a lovely name!

MargotBeauregardesGavel · 23/03/2009 12:20

Kwini, fgs, it's not xenophobia. When selecting a name for my children I wanted a sound that was instantly recognisable and identifiable to all. I just wasn't looking for a name that would be unusual and reflect my culture but have people trying to play it back in their own head after I'd said it trying to figure it out.

It's not correct to say that it's Xenophobic not to want to use a non-English name in Britain. That is a ludicrous over simplification.

marialuisa · 23/03/2009 08:38

I know a child called Pia very well and to the best of my knowledge no-one has ever teased her because of her name. I think the Pia Zadora comment would mean nothing to most people under 30 TBH.

Pia doesn't sound particularly odd in any regional accents and not too sure why, following that logic, anybody would call their child anything other than Mary or Anne?

It's pronounced to rhyme with mia, Leah, Ria etc. and is used in most European countries.

Technofairy · 22/03/2009 23:41

HeadFairy! Yes Pia Zadora - I'm afraid that's all I would think of if I heard the name now.

Probably an urban myth - and nothing to do with names - but allegedly she was/is such a bad actress that when she was playing Anne Frank the audience shouted 'she's in the attic!' when the nazis turned up to search the house.

Pia is actually a pretty name but there are prettier ones IMO. I work with an African girl called Pieh - pronounced pea - and no one takes the mickey at all. She's just Pieh - no mushy, no green, no pod, nothing.

If you like it go for it. Who cares what anyone else thinks!

thumbwitch · 22/03/2009 23:36

I like Pia, and Nia (used to go to school with a Welsh Nia) but am getting pretty fed up of the number of Mias that are about now. Not that keen on Tia either (Tia Maria, anyone?)

gibbberish · 22/03/2009 23:26

Hmmmm.

I do love unusual names.

But just can't get past 'pain in the arse'

Sorry.

Do like Tia though!

Choosing a name is awful, and asking for opinions is even worse. Hope you get what response you were hoping for x

MotherMerryHenry · 22/03/2009 23:22

It's a Swedish name. I used to work with a Pia.

AitchTwoOh · 22/03/2009 23:21

pia would sound lovely in a glasgow accent. it's a lovely name.

AitchTwoOh · 22/03/2009 23:21

pia would sound lovely in a glasgow accent. it's a lovely name.

frumpygrumpy · 22/03/2009 22:55

But my point is not that it should only be used by foreign people in foreign lands......its that IMHO the name "Pia" sounds good when it is said with an accent. It doesn't sound so good when its said in Glasgow........for want of another place......

My MIL is foreign. My oldest daughter's name sounds wonderful when she says it. And it sounds good when I say it IMHO. I'm merely saying that "Pia" doesn't sound good in all accents.

wotulookinat · 22/03/2009 16:56

No.

WowOoo · 22/03/2009 16:50

No.

Themasterandmargaritas · 22/03/2009 16:47

Yes I like it.

Fwiw it means 'also' in KiSwahili.

Kwini · 22/03/2009 16:32

It means "pious" and is a popular name in Indian, Italian, Polish, Scandinavian, and Spanish cultures. Was also used in the late Roman period.

Doesn't sound any more incomplete to me than Mia, or Leah...

MargotBeauregardesGavel · 22/03/2009 16:30

Feminine of Padre Pio.

MargotBeauregardesGavel · 22/03/2009 16:28

pronounced 'pya' I thnk and it is short for something.

Can somebody Italian remind me?

I don'tlike it. it sounds incomplete.

I have a funny feeling its short for something totally different like Francesca.

Kwini · 22/03/2009 16:25

I'm chillin' like a watermelon, frumpygrumpy

It's not about being PC, it's about daring to consider options beyond some people's rather limited horizons. One thing that irks me about these threads is when people have the temerity to reject a name on the basis that it's foreign. Not liking the sound is one thing; rejecting something simply because it's different is another.

RustyBear · 22/03/2009 15:10

Surname beginning with G, Jenbot? (at least her maiden name was & when I googled there's still someone of that name in the same area)

Jenbot · 22/03/2009 14:13

Rustybear, I wonder if that's the Maria-Pia I worked with ages ago!

edam · 22/03/2009 11:41

I'd have to suppress the urge to sing 'I am the music man' at the poor child. So no, IMO.

frumpygrumpy · 22/03/2009 11:41

"Pia, my-a darliny-a, woud-a you like-a leetle ice-a cream-a" (Bella Lasange accent)

"Right Pia hen, d'y want a ice cream doll" (fg's granny's heavy Scots accent)

Nope. Sounds totally different to me PMSL!!!!

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