Mia
Mia means A German, Dutch, and North Germanic diminutive of Maria.
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| Gender | girl |
| Origin | Germanic |
| Language | English |
| Starts with | M |
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “A German, Dutch, and North Germanic diminutive of Maria”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Mishka — Hypocoristic (pet form) of Misha, the Russian diminutive of Mikhail -- the Russian equivalent of Michael, ultimately from Hebrew Mikha'el ('who is like God')
- Tinni — Graceful, slender; affectionate diminutive form
- Amelia — From a Germanic root meaning 'vigor, bravery'
- Ava — Of uncertain meaning; used as a variant of Eva/Eve, an anglicization of the Irish name Aoife, or from an uncertain Germanic root
- Evelyn — Possibly 'desired, wished for', from the Germanic root behind the Old French name Aveline
- Henry — From Frankish Haimrik, from Proto-Germanic Haimarīks
More girls' names of Germanic origin
- Emma — From a Frankish name element meaning 'whole, entire'
Where this comes from
Mia has no entry in the classical Sanskrit dictionary we check against, which is common for modern and non-Sanskrit names. Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.