Do you have a name that is often mispronounced?

Can I just ask. Is Mirian a name, because I get that one ALL. THE. TIME. and just assumed it was a mis-pronunciation/spelling.

I used to have two names that everyone seemed to struggle with. I was delighted to marry someone with a nice "easy" surname. Although, the bank managed to get it wrong on our check-book, but I believe that to be a typo - makes me giggle anyway.

My Welsh name is beautiful but always mispronounced. I chose a simple, correctly spelt, (and, imho, beautiful) name for DD1 so she doesn't have to go through life listening to peoples pitiful attempts to say her name.

All of the rage in this thread should be copied and pasted every time someone posts a "should I name my child [something pronounced completely differently to how it is spelled, or a name in another language with letters pronounced differently in English... I am looking at you, non-Irish Irish-namers!]"

If you're worried about mis-pronunciations, I'd avoid the name Louis because most English speakers will pronounce it as it is written: Lou-is. If you were French living in France, then you should expect it to be pronounced without the s.

Many names get pronounced differently in other languages. With dh being half German we tried to pick names that sound the same in both languages.

My middle name is a Jewish spelling. If I say it, people spell it wrong. If I write it down they pronounce it wrong. Not a common spelling though

First name (Danielle) gets pronounced danni - ell a lot when it's dan - yell. And I always gets things addresses to Mrs Daniel X

My nephew is called Louis and most people pronounce it the correct, English way, Lou-is. That's also how Germans and Spaniards pronounce it - phonetically correct. And the citizens of St Louis in the US.

Just because the French don't pronounce their 's's at the end of words, Louis becomes Lou-ee. But you really can't accuse an English (or German or Spanish) speaker of MIS-pronouncing Louis by pronouncing it Lou-is imo.

I have a very common Irish name, which is often mis-spelled and mis-pronounced here. I'd find it easier to forgive if it wasn't for the fact that it's also the name of a famous and controversial Irish singer, so surely most people over the age of thirty would be familiar with how it's said and written, as she's been in the headlines so many times, even if you're not into her music?

More depressingly, my parents can't pronounce my newborn baby's ordinary, phonetically spelled name! It begins with a 'Th' and they keep pronouncing it 'T', however much I correct them. And that's the shortened nickname we are using when he's a baby - they keep mispronouncing the full name, by getting the 'Th' wrong and misplacing the emphasis. Grr. And this is a phonetically spelled Biblical name - nothing fancy, oddly spelled or made-up.

my name is always pronounced wrong and spelled wrong, i have had to spell it out to everyone i meet! its very annoying, although i don't blame them , i blame my parents for giving me a dreadful name!

its made me extra sure to pick a lovely normal name for my daughter :)

Whenever I see Kai I always think of giant fish.

My name is pronounced how it's written but people still can't do it, or say "oh I know a xxx and a xxx (similar names but not my name) but not your name". How utterly fascinating. Like me saying to Catherine's oh I know a Kate and I know a Catalina, but not yours.

I shorten it now but even that is a ball ache as they spell the shortened version wrong and I feel like a twit for asking for it to be spelt differently i.e. not a mans name!

I have searched on here for my name and laughed at the comments about it being old fashioned and awful and how they'll grow up bullied etc. :)

Mines not hard, but along the lines of Clara. So get called Sara, Lara , Carla, flora, Sarah, Sara etc etc

All the time- amazingly different ways, wildly different ways! There are about 3 basic ways I hear it pronounced, but people get quite creative. Some slip extra syllables in, suffixes, say a pseudo-rhyming name beginning with a completely different letter. Not intentionally, that's just what they hear. And the spellings...

You know what though? I love it. I get tremendous, perverse pleasure saying "Actually, it's MarmaLERT." The people that matter will learn the name, don't worry.

Yes, people get my first name wrong all the time as they misread it, mix up two of the letters and it results in a different name.

Sometimes I haven't bothered to correct them and people have known me for ages getting it wrong.

(My RL name is not Poppy but I wish it was.)

My name gets spelled and mispronounced all the time - the annoying thing is that people spell their name the same way as mine and (imvvvvho) mispronounce it which leads to some of the confusion. I have never understood why my name is pronounced in two ways when names with a different first letter but the same last three letters are NEVER pronounced in two different ways... (apols if that makes no sense!)

It does annoy me - telling people your name 4 times and then having them pronounce it incorrectly - and as a result I'm always very careful about how I spell and pronounce other people's names and I gave both my dc names that are hard to get wrong.

Amie - I had a similar thing - one of my teachers thought I was trying to sound fancy by pronouncing my name the way I did, her blushes at parents night when my parents set her straight were a happy moment for me...

I know two Louis, both spelt this way and there has never been a problem with prononciation. I think this spelling is very common so everyone knows how to pronounce it correctly.

Oh God yes, I get this loads. It's so wearing now that I often just make myself sound about 100 by giving my name as Mrs Surname rather than giving my first name (my surname being easy to pronounce). I've even been known to make a name up when I was younger and getting chatted up in a noisy bar, I just couldn't be doing with repeating it 20 times, then spelling it, then them getting it wrong because it's pronounced differently to how it is spelt. Gah! I've been called all sorts of wierd things, the best being Yoda. Which is really nothing like my name.

Yep, this happens to me too - mainly the speling is wrong. Quite often called called by my surname in work emails as that is pretty easy.

I have done the same sort of sleuthing with mine, BasilDonna. I also know to put the phone down when I answer it and someone mangles my name -- people who know me can pronounce it and those who don't are usually trying to sell me something.

My name is never spelt right (amie not amy, aimee, amiee, ami or any other version) but not ever said wrong fotunatley. With the exception of one lecturer at college who insisted on calling me arnie for the year I took his subject (du to the way I write my m's apparently looking like an r n )
One teacher at school frog marched me to the heads office with a cats bum mouth demanding to see my school record as she thought I'd changed the spelling of it "to be more interesting"

It can be very helpful - my name is mispronounced and misspelt 99 times out of a 100 in many many different ways.
So I always know who sold my details for a mailing list - subsequent mail has the same misspelling.

My son is called Louis and 9 out of ten people when reading it for the first time pronounce it Lewis.
He is 3 and a half and now corrects people himself with "I'm not Lewis, I"m Louis, Loo-eee (he slows it down the second time in case you missed it!) it's not hard you know!"

Does anyone else not find it a bit lazy if you are having to correct the same people on how to pronounce your name especially if they are a part of your family.

when I am in England and speak English I mispronounce my own name, lol. It does flow better that way.... when I speak German I say it correctly and Germans tend to also :)
So, in that respect THAT does not bother me.... what does bother me is if people just shorten a name without your permission or make it "cuter"....
I always liked the name Frederic for example...than my mum comes along and says...oh yeah Freddy that is cute... (and of course she said it in German which made it sound WORSE, i.e. very harsh!) ....put me of that name there and then...lol ....Frederic was not called Frederic after all, he was called Flynn instead. NO issues of mispronunciation nor of shortening nor making it longer....

Yes, Im Rhiannon. Pre 2009 no one could prenounce it. My mothers best friend still calls me 'Ranna'. Post 2009 everyone now says 'oh, you mean Rihanna like that song ELLAELLAELAAEHEHEH'. Nope, like that song 'Rhiannon' by Fleetwood Mac, but nice try douchebag.

Yesterday I spelt my name in Phones4U and the sales assistant said 'two n's? are you sure?'

My sister is Olwen. Everyone calls her Owen and mentions how odd a name that is for a girl. . Shes now pretty much goes by Oz to save hassle. My daughter has Olwen as a middle name and my PIL will not try to spell it correctly.

I love my name but sometimes wonder why couldnt my mother have gone for her original selection of Rebecca?!

Not mispronounced but for some reason in Glasgow people hear my name as 'Daisy' rather than Stacey which is a bit annoying, especially when I spell it out to them and they say 'oh, STACEY!' haha! I have an older relative who's called me Tracey all my life.

I had a Helen-a and a Hel-ee-na in school with me in secondary in Ireland. The Helen-a had to correct teachers all the time. (Correcting teachers was something she enjoyed very much, so prob no skin off her nose.)

I'm Irish metro that's how I could guess. There are lots of Helena's in my family whose name is mispronounced when they step off the island.

I suppose you just get used to correcting people. I have to spell my surname at least 3 times every day. If I speak to someone on the phone, sign for a delivery etc.