How would you pronounce my baby name

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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.

OP how is your DH in respect of other matters? Does he always get the final say?

Same as you op

DON’T CALL HER MIA! You’ve obviously been pushed into a name that you don’t love, or even like very much. You’ll regret it. If he doesn’t like Evie and you don’t like Mia, you need a new name.

Stand up for yourself. Just say “I’m not happy with Mia, and we need to change it” don’t ask if he minds changing it. You both need to be happy. Springing a name change on you in the hospital after having given birth etc is not fair.

Change it. Don’t live with a name that you’ll regret. It’s too important

Fizzy Luckily not.

Op, others are right that you have not named her yet. Do not let yourself be railroaded - might be hard/er to do with hormones flowing and sleep deprivation but you have got this.

I would pronounce it My-ah as that's how friends who have the same spelling as your daughter say it. I find it's pointless getting annoyed just correct. My daughter's name is mispronounced alot it's Annaliese pronounced Annalisa but nearly always mispronounced as Annalease or Annalees. Bugs me even more when people shorten it to Anna.

Mee-ah

Definitely change the name. You don't love it and it's always going to bother you. Your husband sounds like an idiot, tbh. If you don't decide to change, does she at least have a middle name that you could call her instead?

Mee-ah here too

Mee-ah.

But the main issue is your husband is being a prick.

Thanks LookIm - sorry OP I missed that.

Your DH sounds like a bully.

Don't name her Mia.

Stay angry and tell him it's not happening.

In fact I'd pre-empt it completely by starting to call people and tell them not to announce the name as you've decided you won't be using Mia after all.

@Mamagunner are you in the UK? Because I can't imagine a single native English speaker ever seeing Annaliese with an "e" at the end and thinking oh that must be said with an "a" sound. Just doesn't make sense at all for an English speaker to change an ending vowel in that way. An "eh" sound maybe but never a hard "a" like in "car".

Mia Farrow here

But agree it is one of the hardest names to get only one pronunciation on

I know 2 people who spell it Mia but both have different ways to pronounce it.

I have known one since I was little and I have always know her as Mya but spelt Mia.

My DD has Mia as a middle name and it's always been pronounced Mee-ah. My friends daughter is Mya pronounced Meye-ah.

This is a huge decision so don't rush into it if you're not feeling Mia. My friends announced their son's name only to change it 3 weeks later. Not one person said anything negative to them about the change. Give yourself some more time and really think about it, you have another month until she needs to be registered

I would say Mee-ah. As in “Mrs Mia Wallace.... Vincent Vega.”

Who are these weirdos saying myah? It is a lovely name BTW; don’t feel too sad about keeping it. I agree with PP that you should just correct people.

i like the name and have only ever heard it pronounced Mee-ah.
I wanted to call one of my dogs Mia until someone said she would be responding to anyone on the park calling their dogs "come here"

Just keep correcting people. It’s a pretty name and I’d say Mee-a!

Mee-ah (as in Farrow)

I'd say this.

I think it's pretty common to get a few wobbles if people mispronounce the name, I certain felt that with DD1's name (not an English name but common where I come from) but we just corrected people and as a 12yo she generally gets told it's a 'cool' name by other girls so I've done something right .

You need to fight it out with DH. He's allowed to veto Evie but if you don't love Mia you have to find something you both love and since you went through pregnancy you get the final say.

With DD2 DH and I had 2 names we liked, I preferred one and he preferred the other, I got the final say. The name he liked was Elsa, few years later Frozen came out and DD2 was very annoyed we hadn't called her Elsa. She got over it once she grew out of Disney.

EugenesAxe and IamWagging you are both missing the point - OP doesn't want Mia she want the name she chose which is Evie

I'd say Mia like you, OP, MEE-ah. I'd never heard of that spelling being pronounced MY-a until I found out Zara Tindall's daughter's name is pronounced that way.

I actually prefer Evie, I know it's popular but it's nicer than Mia.

I'm sorry you weren't given a choice. Was there any other names you both like that you could comprise on and possibly use Mia as a middle name?
It's so wrong your husband is bullying you into a name, my ex did that with our sons surname, I bitterly regret even now 14 yrs later, even though he has it as a 2nd middle name.
Good luck with talking to him

Mee ah

Meeah don't change it, beautiful name! Also congratulations

I would say mee-ah

Same as Mia Farrow