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

One of my managers is called Manuel but he gets called anything from Manual, Manny or Emmanuel. He had to run the gauntlet of Fawlty Towers jokes as well when he started.

I have condemned my dd to a lifetime of wearily saying 'Two Rs, one L. Like the flower.'

DS2 is Wilfie but we get cards to Alfie all the time. The Health Visitor insists on calling him Wil as well. My niece is Sophia but my Dad can't get his head around the pronunciation and calls her Sophie-a (as opposed to So-FEE-a). She's nearly 5 and it sends me over the edge.
Curious to know name of DD1 MrsDoyles Mole!!!

this was after 6 years btw

When we named dd1 we misunderstood the prounciation(sp?) of her name and so had to change her name by deed poll(only 1 letter difference)so it was spelt how we had been prounoucing it.

hmmm...Sven, my es....sometimes gets called Seven...but normally people get it right!

ms is called Yannic ( pronoiunced Yan-nick)
and generally people get that right...had once or so someone call him Janice...but...nothing major and generally no problem.
Ys is called Flynn...and lots of people don't get it and call him Finn......surely ys name should be the eaiest for brits....he also gets spelled Flinn [yuk] ....which is just wrong....but, tbh..I don't rreally care all that much...we knew it would happen....lol

dd is Alyssa (pronounced a-li-sa) and gets Aleesha, Alicia and all sorts. She is also now 3!
I still love the name - not to 'popular' however our son has a really popular name, so spelling issues there.

My son is called Hughie De'Ath and gets called whoooie (sounds like you are being sick) death (without the pause) Nice. Unfortunetly I did not see that coming when we named him. I do know he is likely to get picked on at school.

No, It would have irritated me forever to have constantly been correcting people so we chose names that you'd have to be exceptional thick to say or spell wrong

Stars, I feel exactly the same about being called by the -e version of my name. People always say 'what's your problem?' as if they are not different names

Just remembered- my poor DH- having an unusual surname which we always have to spell out for people despite it being entirely phonetic.... he has been asked to spell Tom on numerous occasions FFS!

my name is Sophie when i was younger it used to sometimes get written by people as Sophia which i really hated because its a different name not just the wrong spelling.

I have a celtic name which is always misspelled and mispronounced, which is a pain but completey understandable - those letters would NEVER in a million years make those sounds in English so I dont hold it against anyone

We have Issac, Issak, Issaak. We spell it Isaac.

OMG - I just remembered a guy who went to register his son at the school where my mum used to work. He made no secret of the fact that he was deliberately registering his son, himself, so that the school would have his version of the child's name, not his wife's version - which was the one on the birth certificate!
The boy was called Alastair but his dad called him Alistair.
Not suggesting that your DH is doing something like this ... you just reminded me of it

I keep telling Dh. He is a serial offender. lol

I think the point that seems to annoy most of us is people who are serial offenders - those who have been told but repeatedly get it wrong.
Last year I taugh a Cassy (pronounced Casey), a Sarah (pronounced Sara) and a Marie (pronounced Marr-ee as opposed to Ma-ree) but after the first time I was told, I remembered how to say them. It's just good manners!

Even Dh can't spell dd1's name. The school asked me how it was spelt as dh kept writing it differently to me on her lunch tickets....

It's Madison, dh always wrote Maddison. Half the family do too tbh. Confusing to them and him obviously because we call her Maddie most of the time.

dd2 is Jorja......don't even go there, my own fault I know that now, lol!

Dd is Eleanor. we get so many variations from ellena to Elana and most in between.

Some people spell DS's name Garath, instead of Gareth. Which annoys me.

We have a Solomon which regularly gets spelled Soloman. We also have an Esme who gets called Esmay and gets it spelled Esma/Esmie/esmi. What annoys me is the people who repeatedly get it wrong. Its not hard to note how a person spells/says their name and remember it for next time.

My daughter's name is Arabella and, rather sweetly I think, a toddler friend of her older brother calls her Tikkabilla! God help anyone who calls her Arab!

DD3 is Dylan and my father insists on calling her Daryl?!?!?!? wtf?!?!

I have one of those names that ends in -a, but of which there is also a version that ends in -e. The VAST MAJORITY of people I encounter on a casual basis i.e. GPs, telephone helpline people, HVs, MWs, work people and so forth, call me by the -e version. This is often despite having seen my name written down (in emails, on forms) and/or having asked me to spell it out for form-filling or whatever. It drives me FUCKING BESERK.

Oh, and the short version is constantly misheard as Lucy, Phoebe, any number of things. And also misspelled all the time, although this I can forgive for the sake of my sanity as there are several legitimate variations.

Just to add to their confusion, my surname is also very italian.

3 DCs have unusual names they get it too.