Mia

[lyla12]

Would you pronounce this as meeya or maya ?

Meeya for me

Meeya - fab name - love it!

Mee-ya. Cute name but I prefer Maia (pronounced Maya)

Mee-a

Meeya

Thank you all, I love this name and I would also pronounce as meeya but I have had a lot of people say they see this as maya

You can go either way depending on the derivation.

IME people learn how you pronounce it.

This name is always said as Mee-a, surely?

I'd pronounce it Mee-ya - if I saw Mya or Maya though I'd pronounce it My-a.

Meeya, I've never heard Mia pronounced any other way.

To me, Mia = mee-ya

I’m never sure whether Maya should be my-ah or may-ah

its mia and everyone will know that it is. Like tia is tee-ah not ty-ah

I prefer the pronunciation my-a and that’s how I say it in my head but feel like meeya is more commonly used. Lots of names are pronounced different in different countries but I struggle with the name having two different pronounciations within the uk. But people should learn your pronunciation pretty quickly.

I feel like I know 50 Mias under the age of 10. All of them are Mee-a.

Lots of Mee-ya's in DD's year at school.

Ive only ever known it said as mee-a I think everyone knows how to say it. Same as Tia or Nia

It's been very popular for 20 years, and is usually Mee-a

It's always Meeya where I live. Nobody would say it as Myah - that would be either Mya, Maia or Maya (although people do say Maya as May-ah).

I think it's a good name but I don't like how it stands for Missing In Action

Mee-uh

But My-uh seems to be more common

May-uh I’d expect to be spelt Maya or Maia

It’s had it’s day IMO

Mia is a too common name. Whenever I hear it i think it should be left at children born 2008 ish.

@peaceinourtime

My daughter Mia was born in
2006, I wish it was left there about. Had I have known it would become such a commonly used name, I may have reconsidered.

For Mia, I say Mee-ah.
(I’m Scottish so maybe different dialects have slightly different ways of pronouncing names.)

Mia is an Italian word that means “my”
Lovely name xx

Mee-ah.

My-ah would be spelled Mya, imo.

I think there are a lot of spelling-challenged and pronunciation-challenged people around. Mia is a name that's been around forever, and there are famous Mias - Mia Farrow, Mia Tindall (grandchild of Princess Anne). I don't understand how anyone could get it wrong tbh.

I've only heard it pronounced mee-uh. It's a very popular name so I honestly can't see many people have trouble with it, except maybe older people who haven't encountered it before.

My-uh would be Maya or Maia.

Mee-ya. I like it but SO many Mias round here for last number of years.