How to pronounce Maya / Maia

[JassyRadlett]

I'm Australian. DH is English.

Discussing this, we realised we pronounce Maya differently. I've never heard it in Australia/the US as anything but 'My-uh'. DH defaults to May-uh.

We both pronounce Maia to rhyme with Gaia: 'My-uh'.

So, what's standard in Britain for each? Don't want to give any potential child a name that's not useable in both countries.

And how to you pronounce the name of the Mayan people?

I would pronounce Maya as May-a. Maia seems to be the German version so would probably prounce it My-ah.

Mia seems less ambiguous.

How bizarre - I'm a Queenslander!

Maya is pronounced My- ah

Maia and maya can both be prounouced either way. My name is Maia pronunciation MAY-ah

Mai-a
Mai-sie
Dai-sy
Lai-la
Lai-ya
Mai-d
Pai-d ect ect
Maia can also be prounanced just May. Infact my nans name was may spelled Mai.
It's a name that no matter how you spell it you'll always have to correct the majority of people.
But once people no then you won't have to correct again.

I would assume -

Mia - Mee-ah
Maia - My-uh
Mya - My-uh
Maya - I wouldn't know from reading it and would have to clarify if it was My-uh or May-uh

I would say My-un for Mayan people.

Why do people drag up old threads to tell us what their name is?

Doesn't really matters, since Maia isn't English - Maia is Latin and in many European countries, it's My-a. In fact, it may be argued "original" Maia spelling is Maja - from German and other European countries nickname for Maria - where J=Y, so Maya and Maia are just way of spelling Maja.

@DontGiveADuck , they are usually posted late at night. I thought there was a red notice saying it was an old thread.

@Maia87xx , the thread was started in and last posted on in 2014. Why did you post on it?