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Hei Satu, and thanks for the Swedish stats! In Finland, there are only 84 women named Ia of which 6 were born in 2002. The even rarer spellings of the name are Iia and Ija. I have never thought of Ia as a pet form of Maria (Antonia, Sofia, Julia, Emilia...)! But as the Finnish language always puts the stress on the first syllable, I guess it would be strange if a Maria (MA-ree-a) was called Ia. In Swedish, it sounds perfectly normal, though.

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Lass