Is it okay to use this name?

[lilytup]

Tia for a girl. A bit put off by what TIA is in medical terms, would you still use it?

Zia means aunt in Italian.

Tia = Tia Maria to me. I've met a couple of kids called it, so it's not unheard of. I don't like Mia (over used) or Nia (seems unfinished), but Pia is nice. I agree it'd get shortened to Pee though

Tiana is nice in theory but screams Disney Princess to me, so I wouldn't use it.

If something belongs to Tia are they tears?

I've never met anyone with the down but I think it's pretty.

My niece is called Tia and I've never thought of that association! She's 16 and hates her name though, wishes it was something 'normal', whatever that means to a teenager.

How about taya (that's the pronunciation, not the spelling! I don't know how to spell it apart from Tea, a girl I used to teach but was pronounced taya....wouldn't recommend that spelling!!)

Thea

It's too cutesy a name to be used in it's own right. I don't think anyone would take a Tia seriously. If it was short for something like Dorothea or something then that'd be good.