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What do you think of Mia?And: How would your pronounce it? MEE-ah or MY-ah? Or something else?Thank you :)
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I think it's a lovely name, but super popular here in Australia. I pronounce it as MEE-ah.
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I like it, but would never use it. Mainly because it's so popular and it's insubstantial compared to the names I love. I pronounce it MEE-ah.
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For me, MEE-uh is Mia (or, increasingly in Australia, Miah... urgh); MY-uh is Maya or Maia. I would also say Mya as MY-uh, but I dislike this spelling.I think it lacks a lot of substance. I don't mind it as a nickname, but as a full first name... plus it's very popular for baby girls here. I don't get the cutesy appeal.
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I say "Mee-uh" and I think it's pretty and sweet. :)
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MEE-ah and I love it.
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Mee-ah. Reminds me of Mama. Too simple a sound for a human to wear.....
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(Warning: I have a hatred for Mia that is probably more intense than it deserves.)I say MEE-ah, and I always want to preface it with a "Mamma" or a "cara." For me, it's too much like naming a kid Mine. In fact, it always makes me think of the idiotic seagulls in Finding Nemo who say nothing but "Mine? Mine? Mine?" as they fight over fish scraps. MEE-ah isn't a pleasant sound anyway, imo--too much of a mealy bleat.I much prefer MY-ah, but that's Maia or Maya. There was one in my son's class last year, spelled Mya.
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I think of Missing In Action and the sound when Mario dies in the Nintendo games; beyond that I don't care for it one way or another. I pronounce it MEE-ah.

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I say it the usual way, Mee-A. I don't like it, it sounds like a cat asking to be fed.
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In Japan, cats say Nya instead of Meow.Sure enough in some parts of the world, it does sound like a cat asking to be fed.
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In Soviet Russia, joke tells YOU.Yakov
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awesome
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lol
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I like Mia, it's nice.
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I quite like it, but it's quite nicknamey. I would use it as a nickname, for Amelia or Amalia perhaps.I say MEE-uh. MY-uh would be Maya or Mya.
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I'd say MEEah; MYah to me would be Maia.I find it fluffy and insubstantial. The only one I've known was psychologically unstable, so that might not help me to like the name!
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Of course MEE-ah. I dislike it, I think it's boring and insubstantial.
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I prn it Mee-ah and I really like it. I prefer it as a nn, but it's a lovely and sweet name. :)
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I pronounce it MEE-ah. I started to pronounce Maia as MY-ah, but then I realised it was probably MAY-ah, so changed.
I think it's one of those short and sweet names, like Eve and Lily. I'm surprised it's not more popular, even though it is pretty used.
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No, Maia is MY-ah or MAH-ya, not MAY-ah. And Mia is insanely common.
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I pronounce Mai as May so with an a at the end of it that makes MAY-ah, or it does around here anyway. Where I live Mia is actually not that common, I have only ever met one Mia and hardly hear of any.

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Where I live it's very common and no one says MAY-ah, all say MY-ah. Also it's Hebrew/Indian in origin and pronounced MY-ah there as well (I know a Mayim and a Maya from Israel and heard Maya being pronounced in a famous Bollywood movie).
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