How would you pronounce my baby name

[Ashb123]

My little girl is called Mia but people are saying it differently and it’s really annoying me! I pronounce it Mia as in mee-ah but she keeps getting calling mya, she’s only 10 days old and it’s putting me off it to the point of changing it.

I can't understand the different pronunciations of the names 'Mee ah' 'May ah' and 'My ah'. At home (never to their face) we say 'mee ah, may ah, my ah' for girls with this name as I literally can't understand which pronunciation goes with which spelling. I think if you are going to call your child this you have to accept some mispronunciations (my son's name is often mispronounced btw and it's no big deal).

FWIW, my DS's name changed between 2 names in hospital. Half the congrats cards are in one name, the rest in the other name! As are the hospital records!!

It was fine; we ended up with the name I wanted and that suited him. 🙂

I'd say Mee-ah.

I’d say Mee-ah but like Evie more. Why does he get to choose and you don’t?

If neither of you can agree on each other’s preferred name then you need a new third name.

You can say it both ways (bit like Sarah/Sara = 'air' and 'are')

I've only known Mee-ah's to be Mia but I've heard others do different. Mia is a top name if we have a second daughter! Keep the name and just correct people, it won't take long.

Hmmm, I see Sarah/Sara as two completely different names!

Mee-ah. The other way would be spelled Maia, Mya or Maya surely.

Too many posters are commenting on how to pronounce the baby's name when the real issue is that the OP has been railroaded by her husband into using a completely different name other than the one she had chosen. He made the decision before they even came out of the hospital and now the OP is crying about it, what a bloody tosser he is.

@Ashb123 I would say Mee-yah, but I do understand people would say MY-AH.

Sorry. You - and your daughter - are going to get this a LOT. Mispronunciation of her name...

I think that's why people started to put funny/unusual spellings, like Ashlee, and suchlike, so the names are more likely to be pronounced as they sound IYSWIM.

Good luck. If it bothers you so much though, I would change it. No big deal. Someone I knew some years back called their son Daniel, and an uncle and grandad in he family kept calling him Dango-man and Dangy. They also kept singing 'Danny-Boy' and 'Daniel Boone was a man, was a BIG man!'

They meant no harm, but it pissed her (and her DH) off so much, that they changed his name to Luke.

Mee ah as in Mama Mia!

ITA @TheWernethWife.

Mee-yah is how I would pronounce it.

Change it if you want, but Mia (Mee-yah) is a nice name.

FWIW, me and DH knew we were having a girl (from about 5 months into the pregnancy) with our first born, and decided on a certain name, (let's pretend it's Olivia.)

I regularly spoke to her when she was in the womb, and spoke her name (Olivia,) over and over. When she was born, DH started saying he liked a different name, (let's say Samantha,) and said she 'looks like a Samantha.' I was like 'WTF?'

After she was born, DH kept calling her Sammy and telling people we were going to call her Samantha. I asked him where the fuck he'd got that name from. He had never mentioned it til the day she was born! I did not want our daughter being called that name. We'd decided on Olivia 4 months back, and I loved the name.

I stood my ground and dug my heels in, and when we went to register her at the register office, I said OLIVIA very firmly. DH said 'no Samantha then?' I said 'NO!' Glad I dug my heels in.

I am sorry you have been bullied/coerced/railroaded into giving your daughter a name you didn't want. Change it if you really want to. Cite the reason (to your DH) as 'people cannot pronounce it right!'

Mya

Does your husband appreciate how unhappy you are about this? Why does he get to choose?

I'd say Mee-ah as well

Mee-ah from me too.

To pronounce it My-a I would assume it's spelt Maia/Maya/Myah

Who the hell pronounces it mya ff's. Its quite straighforward.

Too many posters are commenting on how to pronounce the baby's name when the real issue is that the OP has been railroaded by her husband into using a completely different name other than the one she had chosen. He made the decision before they even came out of the hospital and now the OP is crying about it, what a bloody tosser he is.

Yes, true, I’d posted before I read it all.

Your husband is a cunt OP x don’t stand for this. If anything if you can’t agree you should get more say in the name than him as you did all the hard work!

Meeyah? I would only pronounce miyah if it was maya?

Tell them they are all dumb

The more time goes on the angrier I am

Not as bad as my ex husband who came back with our second daughters birth cert! I was looking through it and she had been put down as a boy!!!! Her first name is definitely a girls name here in Ireland albeit an older spelling of it. He was sent back pronto to get it changed.

I would assume it was mee-ah. For me MY-a would be spelled Maya or Maia

Oh and OP. I would say Mee a as in Mia Farrow. Bought my girls names end in that a sound even though they are old Irish names.

OP, is she registered yet?

Mia- mee-ah
Mya- my-a
Maya- may-a