Mia (given name)

Mia is a female given name, originating as a hypocoristic of various unrelated names. Mia means 'my', 'mine', or 'bitter'.

Mia

Pronunciation	/ˈmaɪə/ MY-ə /ˈmiːə/ MEE-ə
Gender	Female
Origin
Meaning	Bright, friendly

It is usually derived from the name Maria and its variants (Miriam, Maryam, Mary), but it is reportedly also used as a hypocoristic of names such as Amalia, Amelia, Emilia, Emily, Salome (Solomia) or Maya.

The name has been popularly associated with the Italian word mia and the Spanish word mía, both meaning 'mine', and also recognized as a derivation from the Slavic word mila, meaning "dear, darling".

Popularity

Long in use as a hypocoristic, Mia is recorded as an officially given name in the United States in the 1960s, and it rose to popularity in the 1990s to 2010s, from rank 316 in 1994 to rank 30 in 2004 and further to rank 6 in 2013–2015.[1] Similarly, it reached rank 7 in Australia as of 2013.[2]

Notable individuals

Given name

• Mia Brownell (born 1971), American visual artist
• Mia Hagman (born 1979), Finnish breaststroke swimmer
• Mia Hansen (born 1992), Doringkloof model
• Mia Kirshner (born 1975), Canadian actress
• Mia May (1884–1980), Austrian actress
• Mia Michaels (born 1966), American choreographer
• Mia Newley (born 1988), Australian basketball player
• Pia Mia Perez (born 1996), American singer, songwriter, model, and actress, known professionally as Pia Mia
• Mia Pojatina (born 1995), Croatian model
• Mia Rkman (born 1997), Croatian model
• Mia Sara (born 1967), American actress
• Mia Strömmer (born 1974), Finnish hammer thrower
• Mia Tyler (born 1978), American actress, daughter of Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler
• Mia Wray (born 1995/1996), Australian pop singer-songwriter
• Mia Wasikowska (born 1989), Australian actress
• Mia Zapata (1965–1993), American musician

Hypocoristic

• Mia Aegerter (Myriam), Swiss pop singer and actor
• Mia Farrow (María), American actress
• Mia Hamm (Mariel Margaret), American soccer (football) player
• Mia Matthes (Mariette, 1920–2010), Canadian photographer
• Mia Rose (Maria), British-Portuguese singer

Pseudonyms

• Mia (singer), Lithuanian singer and television presenter
• Mia Khalifa, Lebanese-American social media personality and former pornographic actress
• Mia Martini, pseudonym of Domenica Berté, Italian singer
• Mia Murano (未亜), Japanese model and actress
• Mia X, American rapper, singer-songwriter and actress

Fictional characters

• Baby Mia, Molly's baby sister that first appears in "Bubble Baby!" in the American animated television series Bubble Guppies.
• Mia, a character in the British web series Corner Shop Show
• Mia (.hack)
• Mia (Dark Tower)
• Mia, a lead character from Lego Friends
• Mia, the titular character from Mia and Me
• Mia, a character in the 2016 American film La La Land
• Mia, a Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance character
• Mia, a Golden Sun character
• Mia, a mouse, the lead character in Mia's Big Adventure Collection educational software series
• Mia (Two and a Half Men), a character on the television show Two and a Half Men
• Mia Allen, a character from The Evil Dead
• Mia Ausa, a Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete character
• Mia Dearden, a comic book character
• Mía Colucci, a character in the Argentine telenovela Rebelde Way (2002–03)
• Mía Colucci, a character in the Mexican telenovela Rebelde (2004–06)
• Mia Elliott, a character on the American soap opera Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
• Mia Fey, a Phoenix Wright character
• Mia Hall, main character of novel and film of If I Stay
• Mia Havero, main character and narrator of Alexei Panshin's 1968 Nebula Award-winning novel Rite of Passage
• Mia Jones (Degrassi: The Next Generation), a Degrassi: The Next Generation character
• Mia Lewis, a character in the TV series Californication
• Mia St. Clair, an American Girl character
• Mia Thermopolis, a main character in The Princess Diaries and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
• Mia Toretto, a main character in The Fast and The Furious
• Mia Townsend, a Need for Speed: Most Wanted character
• Mia Wallace, a Pulp Fiction character
• Mia Warren, a character in Celeste Ng's 2017 novel Little Fires Everywhere and in the 2020 miniseries of the same name
• Mia Watanabe, a character from Power Rangers Samurai
• Mia Karnstein, a character from Code Vein

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Mia

References

1. behindthename.com
2. "Australia's 100 most popular baby names". Kidspot. April 2, 2013. Archived from the original on January 10, 2014. Retrieved 2014-01-10.