Do you have a name that is often mispronounced?

My name is frequently mispronounced. At this point, I don't care, can't be bothered to correct people constantly and answer to anything. :(

My name is a man's name in many country (Spanish-speaking countries, Portugal, Brazil...) and I used to work for an international company and was often referred at Mr. So when I would answer the phone people would assume that I was Mr. J's Secretary.... Oh well

People are stupid.

A good friend of mine still calls my DD Eve instead of Evie even after constant correction. Maybe she just prefers the name?

Even my DH wrote the wrong middle name for DD2 on our tax form a few weeks ago. He wrote Isobel. Her name is Isabella.

Yes. People really quite often end up adding a H onto the start of my name, sometimes stubbornly continuing even after I've corrected them. Grrr!

My name wasn't that common growing up, but was in the top 10 about 10 years ago so there are a lot of us knocking around these days!

Yes. My name was frequently mispronounced as Dorito (brand of crisps) in the States

Not my name but dd2 is called Elana which commonly gets mispronounced as Alana.

I have an unsual name which is constantly mispronounced. TBH I barely notice it now. Although the most striking one was when a woman I worked with for a year called me by a completely different name, think Lucy instead of Mary kind of wrong. When I realised, I didn't have the heart to correct her (it was after about three months) so just answered to Lucy instead. Confused the hell out of my other colleagues who wondered who on earth this lucy was that was doing bits and bobs and then running off.

I'm a Jen/Jennifer and I get Jane , Jenny, Jenna and once, more worryingly, John.

The thing I dislike the most is when Jennifer gets pronounced Jenny-fer, I think it may be a dialect thing though.

I believe my name is the same as SecretNutellaFix. I quite agree that the final A is missed off ALL the time.
Personally, I like unusual names.

My children have quite ordinary names, spelt quite ordinarially(sic).

I like them

Could't really give a flying fuck, who cares otherwise?

People would always mispronounce/ misspell my maiden name which never really bothered me. What do bother me was people assuming to call me by a nickname. It would go along the lines of (not the actual name but same thing)
"what's your name?"
"Jen"
"oh... Jenny?"
"no, Jen."
If my name was Jenny, I would have said Jenny!

I think there are lots of names that will be mispronounced, misspelled or just altered, even common ones. If you like the name then use it.

I know two people with unusual names (one Irish) who are frequently asked to spell their names over the phone. They have had so many problems that they now spell their own name phonetically and incorrectly to people simply so that they won't have to go through the rigmarole of people double-checking, asking them to repeat etc!

My surname, while unusual as a surname, is four letters long and is a real word in English. I have never, ever NOT had to spell it out. In fact I now automatically say "it's [name]-that's-letter-letter-letter-letter" without thinking about it.

We gave DD a celtic name 'Ula' but it's said 'OOla' - we preferred it that way and it turns out that's how it's said in Polish.

I'm an Abigail but get that changed to any other spelling of Abi rather than the one I use.

Mine is pronounced wrong constantly. I don't mind at all as it's Welsh and therefore expected. What DOES piss me off though is that my own mother pronounces it wrong. I think it's because my Dad picked my name and they split.

Well, my name isn't mispronounced, it's lengthened incorrectly! I'm an Alexandra, but have always been known as Ali, and people assume that as I'm an Ali, my name must be Allison! I just ignore people that call me Allison as obviously it's not my name! But will answer to Alex even though I don't like it (for me!)
Also, my DD is Norah, and we thought that her 'biggest name problem' would be saying 'that's Norah with an h' but apparently, the bigger problem is that people hear 'Laura!' (which is a lovely name, just not what we chose!)

my dd is Merryn and people often mishear and mispronounce it to begin with, we have had mary, mirian, marianne etc etc, once they know what her name is they seem to get it right! but i suspect it will be an ongoing issue for her, along with me callnig her a 'good boy' she may grow up with issues

Yes, I have a name which is always, always mispronounced.

When I was a kid it made me feel a bit special and different. Now it just makes me feel annoyed - with my late parents for saddling me with it, rather than with the person floundering around the silent vowels.

Surname, yes, to the extent that I'm always quite startled when people either spell or say it correctly (unless in Ireland where both my surname and first name are very common, though then they tend to assume I'm Irish and Catholic - until they meet me!)

I am Marianne and I get called Mary Anne or Marion quite a lot.

Not as often mispronounced as pre Rowling. But still the comments come. "ooh that's unusual" "who called you that". Coupled with an unusual surname, it drove me nuts when I was younger. Especially nurses who thought it was a point of conversation - it wasn't it was boring - especially the arsy one who once said "how unusual - where did you get that from?" and made a catsbum (a word I have learned from Mnet) face when I said "from my parents, just like everyone else." "As in Gielgud" never went down too well either.

Our children have two syllable names with no variants.

My younger son is Ciar (pronounced Kee ir) it's the Gaelic version of Keiran but shortened as the name Ciaran means the little dark one but we didn't think he'd be little (or turn out blond for that matter!!!) so we removed the "an". When we got down to two on the list, I got to choose the name and the OH choose the spelling.

Mostly people think he is a girl - he is extremely pretty for an almost 11 year old boy, but he doesn't look like a girl! The kids in his class all spell it wrong he gets lots of things with Keir on them and we always know when it's our turn in the doctors/dentists etc as there is always a little pause for they attempt a guess at pronouncing his name. I think i would have stuck with a more traditional spelling.

Incidentally we have friends who's son is a Luis and he still gets people pronouncing it Loo ey.

I teach a Lewis and a Louis. The first lesson I just asked them whether I was pronouncing them correctly and went from there. I think Louis, spelt that way, will cause fewer problems than you think.

You can't avoid the mis-spelling / mispronunciation of everyone anyway. I have a Tess (2yo) and it's already been spelt wrongly!

no one can pronounce my surname if they have only seen it written down.
Everyone misspells it even when they have seen it written down.

i often joke that when i got married i becase MrsMateyM00doyouwantmetospellit?

my DD's teacher spelt DD surname incorrectly on DD's Spelling book, and got all sniffy when i pointed it out to her!

No two people have ever got my name right, there's even been discussions in my presence on how to say it :o

Same for my second name. People just give me nicknames which is great especially gossip wise as I can claim it wasn't me by using another variation,

My Louis, will now respond to Lewis, and it still surprises me how people can't pronounce his name correctly. It does really annoy me, however adults are usually the worse offenders!