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[mommyaubrey.livejournal.com]

just found out my friend is naming her baby girl Mya McKenzie what do you think? i think its cute.  

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[ohhvelocitygirl.livejournal.com]

mia and mya aren't the same name.

[ohhvelocitygirl.livejournal.com]

they are variants of each other, but they are pronounced differently.

[mommyaubrey.livejournal.com]

Mia is pronounced Me-uh, and Mya is pronounced My-uh...

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

you rock... it really does upset me how people WANT to be illiterate now a days... why spell it right when you can add a letter that will change the name and then pretend it's exactly the same name!?

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

uh no, Mya and Mia are pronounced the same... people just seem to be illiterate by choice now a days. If anything then it'd be MM-yuh and that is still not Maya... so yeah.

I like Mia, not Maya and well I really dislike McKenzie in all it's incarnations but at least it's on the middle name status here.

[rockstargrrrlie.livejournal.com]

There's an R&B singer named Mya who pronounces her name just like Maya, so I'd imagine that's where a lot of people get that pronunciation form.

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

yeah that's worrisome to me... when we start getting our education from R&B artists =S

[rockstargrrrlie.livejournal.com]

Well, to be fair, lots of names come into use after they're exposed to the public eye.

If it makes any difference, behindthename.com (which is among the most reputable baby name sites) does give the pronunciation of Mya to be the same as that of Maya (MIE-ə), although it gives its definition to be a modern English variant of Mia.

What does all of this means? To me, it means that Mya is a modern form of Maya or Mia, and it would be better for someone to stick with a reputable spelling. However, it also means (to me) that neither pronunciation is wrong.