Mia is a feminine given 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, 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 hypocorism, 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

Fictional characters

• Baby Mia, Molly's baby sister that first appears in "Bubble Baby!" in the American animated television series Bubble Guppies
• Mia, 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, 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, from The Evil Dead
• Mia Ausa, a Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete character
• Mia Dearden, a comic book character
• Mía Colucci, in the Argentine telenovela Rebelde Way (2002–03)
• Mía Colucci, in the Mexican telenovela Rebelde (2004–06)
• Mia Elliott, 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, a Degrassi: The Next Generation character
• Mia Lewis, in the TV series Californication
• Mia Rio, in Yandere Simulator
• 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, from Power Rangers Samurai
• Mia Karnstein, from Code Vein
• Mia the Kitten, in the American animated television series T.O.T.S.
• Mia Sutton, a main character from Death Note (2017 film)

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Mia
• Pia Mia (born 1996), American singer, songwriter, model, and actress
• Mia (surname)

References