Mia in Cursive

Mia in cursive is ℳ𝒾𝒶. The capital ℳ is U+2133, one of the eight script capitals Unicode placed in its older Letterlike Symbols block, so in some fonts it looks a little different from the i and a beside it.

At three letters, Mia is one of the shortest names on this site: 5 UTF-16 code units in cursive. Written by hand there is only one thing to remember — dot the i after the a.

Short names are the ones people try in many styles, and 'mia in different fonts' is one of the searches this site shows up for in Google. The same three letters look very different from style to style: 𝓜𝓲𝓪 in bold cursive, Ⓜⓘⓐ in bubble letters, 𝕸𝖎𝖆 in Old English and Mɪᴀ in small caps.

Because Mia is so short, heavy styles like bold cursive or Old English still read clearly in a bio or a display name, where a longer name in the same style can feel crowded.

Mia began as a short form of Maria, and of names such as Amelia and Emilia, and was rarely used on its own before the 20th century. The MEE-ah pronunciation spread through songs that used the Italian word mia, meaning my — Rosa Mia in 1938 and Cara Mia in 1954.

In the US it was first given to five or more girls in 1938, and it entered the top 1,000 girls' names in 1964, the year actress Mia Farrow appeared in Peyton Place.