Mia (given name)

Mia is a feminine 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, 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 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

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 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

References