Mia (given name)

For other uses, see Mia (disambiguation).

{{Infobox given name | name = Mia | image= | imagesize= | caption= | pronunciation= /ˈmaɪə/ MY-ə
/ˈmiːə/ MEE-ə | gender = girl | meaning = | region = | nickname = | origin = | related names = |footnotes = Mia is a female name, originating as a hypocoristic of various unrelated names.

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 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. Similarly, it reached rank 7 in Australia as of 2013.

Notable individuals

Given name

• Mia Zapata (1965–1993), American musician
• Mia Michaels (b. 1966), American choreographer
• Mia Sara (b. 1967), American actress
• Mia Brownell (b. 1971), American visual artist
• Mia Strömmer (b. 1974), Finnish hammer thrower
• Mia Kirshner (b. 1975), Canadian actress
• Mia Tyler (b. 1978), American actress, daughter of Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler
• Mia Hagman (b. 1979), Finnish breaststroke swimmer
• Mia Newley (b. 1988), Australian basketball player
• Mia Wasikowska (b. 1989), Australian actress
• Mia Kashuba (b. 1997), American psychic medium
• Mia Pojatina (b. 1995), Croatian model
• Mia Rkman (b. 1997), Croatian model

Hypocoristic

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

Pseudonyms

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

Fictional characters

• Mia, a character in the British web series Corner Shop Show
• Mia (.hack)
• Mia (Dark Tower)
• Mia Dearden, a comic book character
• Mia Fey, a Phoenix Wright 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 Toretto, a main character in The Fast and The Furious
• Mia Thermopolis, a main character in The Princess Diaries and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
• Mia Wallace, a Pulp Fiction character
• Mia Jones (Degrassi: The Next Generation), a Degrassi: The Next Generation character
• Mia Elliott, a character on the American soap opera Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
• Mia Ausa, a Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete character
• Mia St. Clair, an American Girl character
• Mia Townsend, a Need for Speed: Most Wanted character
• 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 Lewis, a character in the TV series Californication
• Baby Mia, Molly's baby sister that first appears in "Bubble Baby!" in the American animated television series Bubble Guppies.
• Mia Watanabe, a character from Power Rangers Samurai
• Mia Allen, a character from The Evil Dead
• Mia, a character from Mia and Me
• Mia, a character in the 2016 American film La La Land
• Mia Hall, main character of novel and film of If I Stay