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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.id say go ahead with the names mia is modern and like you said short and althow it might b another form of mary, in ur case its simply mia but then again my m8s name is maria and her family call her mia as this is in the name MarIA and mia shortens it.
keep mary as its a family name, names r hard choosing but id say not to worry and go with your choice it sounds fine to me.
my little niece is called Mia - cute and modern (made most recently famous by the Fast & Furious movie!).
Maria and Mary are the same - but can say coming from a spanish background that I've never heard "mia" as short for either. "Mia" in spanish is used to designate ownership (fem) as in "En tu casa o en la mia?" (At your house or mine?)
You also get the "what if they mary someone with the surname" thing with girls names.
If she married somebody with the surname May and wanted to take his surname then Mia Mary May definately would sound odd.
My daughters called Holly and any boys with the surname Wood will be driven off the doorstep with a broom! :c)
I wouldn't worry too much, the chances are nobody'll use the middle name anyway - In fact I can't think of anybody outside of my immediate family who's middle name I do know!
I've done a quick net search and it appears that the name Mia is Italian for "mine" - which is quite nice, I think. Nothing to do with the name Mary.
My mother has a friend named "Marjorie Margaret" who expressed disappointment that her mother had picked two names that had the same origin, Marjorie orginally being a pet form of Margaret. Mainly her disappointment arose from her mother being quite dismissive about it and saying "well I suppose we had to name you something." I'm sure if she had been told she had been named after a family member she would have had cause to feel a little more special.