Opinions on Mia and one other please

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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.

Mia is nicer

Elizabeth

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.

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.

Maya

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...

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.

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

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?

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!

Love Elizabeth/Lizzie.

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.

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.

I can't stand Lizzie

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.

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.