in my particular dialect my first instinct would be to pronounce both as "My-ah". For
Maia I may secondarily guess "May-ah" if I was told I was incorrect with no context. Then after that I would guess it as a rhyming pronunciation of
Gaia (so to me Ma-EE-ah). I personally prefer
Maya over
Maia imo due to the perceived more straight-forwardness of the pronunciation.
Please rate my "Names I would use" list if you have a spare moment, feel free to rate other lists too if you want but ik there's a lot, thank you :)
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