Nursery keep spelling child’s name wrong

My daughters name has 2 spellings and as long as it's spelt most of the time with the correct spelling I don't fret too much. Having her name spelt correctly on her peg would be a deal breaker.
In one of her reports from nursery we had one paragraph when she turned into a completely different child! We just laughed!
I had a 5 letter name that was very common. It has 2 spellings and I still got lots of different spellings. I worked in a restaurant where it was never spelt on the rota the same way twice

I discovered at 25 that my dad spelt my middle name incorrectly on my birth certificate!

I would say Jon is a fairly recent diminutive for Jonathan as years ago anyone named Jonathan used John. I have never known anyone refer to themselves as Jonny.

Is it? My FIL was always Johnnie and he was born more than 100 years ago.

I have noticed over the last 4.5 years of using a nursery (two children with two years apart in age) that the staff don’t have great written communication skills, including spelling, punctuation or grammar. But as this isn’t a prerequisite of providing good care to my children I let it slide right over my head.

Do the staff engage with your child, provide good care and is your child happy to attend?

Only if it is a diminutive for John. It would be an illogical spelling as a diminutive for Jonathan, hence Jonny / Jonnie.

People are lazy and thoughtless. Sometime I have signed my name in an email and the person responding has written it with the wrong first letter. Think Jerry and Gerry. It isn't rocket science when it is there before you.

Not really. The first spelling is the traditional way.

This happens if you have a child called Johnny to be fair - Johnny, Johnnie, Jonny, Jonnie, Johny…

Primary did something like this to my child.

Instead of misspelling their name, they would send letters with her cousins name in by mistake who used to attend the school. I think they were using a template saved by surname maybe?

Several face to face conversations didn't work, so in the end I would send back whatever it was with a note asking who X was?

You could have both changed your names to something else.

Ha, if only it just happened with unusual spellings! 😂

Well that's what you when you choose an unusual name unfortunately

It's down to your choice not others that can't spell it

When my son started nursery everyone was like what’s the spelling, what’s the spelling. I thought they were barmy as this kind of thing doesn’t bother me. But actually as they moved up classes I see now that at nursery they do have their names on bloody everything so it probably does matter.

They probably found the Rebecca spelling came with its own variants too, Rebeca,Rebbecca. Rebbeca,Rebeccer……….. sighs heavily.

I once worked in a school where there was a pair of twins of Bengali heritage in reception. They had unusual names ,think something like Polly and Dolly, names that were on the register, their books, that they used for each other, answered to etc. Until the day one of their teachers asked Mum about the names, turns out mum and the babies had spent some time in hospital after a complicated delivery and the midwives/ nurses had given the girls the Polly/Dolly names, and written them on their wrist tags/ cots because their Bengali names were “too hard” to pronounce and remember. When they started school nursery Mum had assumed that all English people in authority were equally as rude/entitled/ ignorant so had given the Polly/Dolly names for school, “But we use their proper names at home” . From that day on Amina and Ameera used their proper names at school too.

Names have been changed (again) for privacy reasons.

I use my full name - e.g. Elizabeth. That's my name, it's who I am. If I introduce myself to someone and they immediately call me Lizzie, I tell them politely but firmly that that my name is Elizabeth. One person replied, "Oh, well I know another Elizabeth who's called Lizzie." Maybe so, but I'm not her. By that reasoning, I know a Susan, so should I call every female Susan?
Names are important and we should respect that, whatever age people are.

I'm guessing Mohammed or one it's many variants.

My cousin Becky went to live in New Zealand and now she is called “Bicky”!

This is sarcasm, right?

Some people on this thread miss the point that this is at nursery.
Where children learn to recognise and write their name
That's surely the most significant point here

I think you're being precious, OP.

As someone with a very normal, short name that has a couple of spellings, I've had 50 years of misspellings and honestly, it matters literally nought!

I think pronunciation is way more important than spelling.

DS is in year 11 and still none of the teachers throughout his entire school career have managed to spell his surname correctly. Even when physically in front of someone and I spell it out, they will still get the two letters in question the wrong way round 😖

Ridiculous, passive aggressive suggestion. I hope you’re joking. What a way to live your life.

How did you get on when you raised it with the nursery @QueryAutism?

My cousin Becky went to live in New Zealand and now she is called “Bicky”!

I used to work with a chap called Martyn. What on earth were his parents thinking? He had to say “no, Martin with a y” all through his life!

There were 7 girls called Rebecca, in my year. Becky, Beccy, Becki, Becci, Beckie, Bekki, and Beccie. I'm really not joking. How are people expected to remember which one is which?

It’s both rude and pretty stupid of the staff. How hard can it be? Really? I’d take a look at the EYFS framework and highlight all the parts of that they aren’t meeting by continuing to disregard his name. Might make them think!