Does anyone spell or say your child's name wrong?

my dd is called luisa but it is not louisa like everyone thinks!!! grrrr.it is a spanish name and is said like looeesa!! even mil gets it wrong.rather annoying but hey louisa is nice too

DD3 is called Dylan which I fully expect confusion over HOWEVER my FIL insists on pronouncing it DYE-LON?!?!?

DD2 is Lexie and he calls her Laxie and he can never remember DD1's name either and its easy and common and not gender confused

Joseph

From DHs family we have had all sorts - Joesehp, Josepher (all the time from MIL), Jospeh - it's endless. I am not sure we have had one card that is spelt correctly! One of his middle names is Malachi - I dread to think if we had used it as his first name!

His name is Lachlan. We pn it Lock-lin
Other people pn it Lack-lan.
We pn it that way as we did not want him to have the Nickname of lackie as it means skivvie!
We call him Lachie (lawkey).
I do get peed off when people insist on pn his name as Lack-lan.

Several of my dd's friends drop the t from her name, even the friend with the same name.

My sons name is harley but he continually gets Harvey. Although he is 5 has learnt to tell people it's not Harvey its Harley

yes by one aunt who does it on purpose
grrrr

I got a xmas card from neighbours

Hlh, hlh dp & Jamel

His name is samuel!!!

plus i sent them a card first with all our name on! how bad must my hand writing have been????

My name is Jacqueline. People often get it wrong, but some people get it too wrong. I have had Jakeline, Jackie-lyn, Jackaalime. WTF??

We named our dd Sanam (pronounced SA-nem) which is pretty much always messed up. But I have an unusual name and it never bothered me so we decided to go for it. I still like the name - and very much think it's 'her' name - but sometimes I am still worried if she'll be frustrated later in life.

at emmer ha

My children get their names spelt wrong and ds gets his name pronounced wrong all the time,he's learnt to correct thickfucks them.

i realise i am not my child but i wanted to share.

my name is emma and once had it spelled 'emmer'!

doesn't matter how 'normal' your name is, some fucker will always spell it wrongly

My family have never learnt to spell the abbreviated form of my name the way I prefer it - with a 'ie' rather than a 'y'. I'm now 35, and have given up all hope.

I don't even bother expecting anyone else to spell my name right, or even remember what it is.

I have an Erin who loads of people pronounce "Eron". And I actually got a Christmas card from a neighbour which said "Heron"!!! She is not a bird!!!!

My name is Claire, even my bf had it in his phone as Clair for about 2 years!!
The only thing that annoys me is when ppl say ''oh that's an unusal way to spell it''. No it isn't! it's the most common way of spelling it!
It doesn't actually bother me if ppl spell it wrong tho.

I agree it is the serial offenders that are the problem. My DD has 2 ways of saying her name - We prefer the ee ending as opposed to the ay sound. Last year her teacher called her the 'wrong' name all year! As a result some of her friends say it wrong now too! I have a similar problem with her gym coach and our GP. I do correctly them but they just keeping saying it the 'wrong' way! LOL

DS on the other hand has no problems with pronounciation of his name but there are several ways of spelling his name so we get quite a vairety on cards/invites etc. (along the lines of Clair/Claire/Clare sort of name) TBH it doesn't bother me as family and close friends all manage to get it right!

TBH I am guilty of this, my cousin's boy is called Jaime, but that's the girl's spelling (not sure that she realises) so I was spelling it Jamie for about 2 years until I realised.
It's her fault for spelling it wrong in the first place lol

luciano - pronounced - loo-ch-ay-a-no

heard it so many wrong ways its not funny.

people have given up and relatives call him luca/lucio/lusy/luke

I thought I;d managed to get a name for DS that was so phonetic and traditional it couldn't possibly be spelt wrong. Until we got Christmas cards addressed to Mummy, Daddy and SamuAl! aaaarrrhhhgg!

Dd1 dh and myself all have extremely easy British names, which just happen to have slight varients.
We rarely get the correct written form. This does bug me ,as I have usually spelt out the name (on forms ,or over the phone),so the writer is either not listening or ignorant. Dd2 has more unusual name which never gets misspelt.

I'm English, my DH isn't. We specifically chose a name for DD that (we thought) was hard to get wrong in either language.

DD is Alexandra.
About 50% of acquaintances spell it AlexandRIA.
WTF??? She's a girl not a place (and I've never heard of anyone called Alexandria). It's not a difficult, unusual or 'foreign' name. You spell it phonetically, you'll get it right. People are just lazy lazy lazy.

I do have sympathy with those who get Claire/Clare Katharine/Catherine wrong; having said that I normally ask someone with a name like that how they spell it.

I have an Esme which I pronounce Esmeee and everyone else does too - apart from my sis, who insists on saying Esmay, cos she read somewhere that this was how it is pronounced.

And even if I say I don't like Esmay, I like Esmeeee, everyone calls her Esmeee she still purposefully says Esmay all the time to wind me up. Grrr.

I have a Maddie too and it winds me up a little bit when people write it Maddy. That's just unreasonable of me I know, but it still does.

I honestly don't mind if it is accidental.
But my son's name is Aiden and my FIL spelt it Aidan for years, sespite DH telling him that we chose to spell it with an -e. On purpose. Luckily we don't see him very often.