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

Mine is Gina. Nobody can ever say it or spell it properly.

I thought Evelyn was traditional!

Mind you, my name is Emma and I get alsorts of spellings, best was Emmer. My DH gets his spelt incorrectly too, which makes me laugh.

dd's has at least 3 variant spellings, with several abbreviations - she is called at school one we never use ! You'd have thought I 'd have learnt having had mine constantly misspelled and alternatively abbreviated which drove me mad as a child.

my ds1 is connor, the different ways people spell it never fails to amaze me.
he gets conna, cona, conner, connar. its not that hard is it?!!

My children have never had their names mispelt as far as I know. At least not by anyone above the age of 5. There is something to be said for your traditional, phonetic names.

I really can't understand how people get it wrong. I'm quite badly dyslexic, and so I check each time I right a name that could be tricky which way is right. It drives my husband mad at Christmas!

I have to spell all three of my names - I should have married a Mr Smith! It's a big concern with choosing a name for madam (I'm 32 weeks gone). My first name I actually use a different spelling than my birth certificate - 'ie' rather than 'y' (have done since I was 4) but my brother still insists on using the 'proper' spelling. Half our cards have my name spelt wrongly on them - from hubby's work mates etc., which I don't mind too much (even though I make the effort to get it right) but it bugs me that my brother can't get his head around my name...

funny post.
my son is Freddie. lots of family write cards to Freddy or Fred.
my next door neighbour still calls him frankie despite being told every time its freddie! (it makes me laugh now...she is elderly and english not her 1st language)

My DD is called Ava. Three letters, two of which are the same - it's not that hard.

Most of the christmas cards received this year, including those from family members had 'Eva' written on them.

She is nearly 3 FGS!

I have a daughter called Hermione. despite Harry Potter, people still struggle with it, and the health visitor once called her something like Hormone....NB: we shorten it to Mi.

There`s an Issac where I work.

My dd is called Phoebe but the most common misspelling is Pheobe. For some reason, people seem to struggle with writing the O before the E and weve often heard Phobe being called out as her name. Its for this reason I didn`t opt to use the spelling Phebe as then it would have been Feebs or worse.

shortshaff doesn't it amaze you I never heard of Issac as a spelling before having my son. How do you pronounce yours as this to be honest annoys me more.

I don't think any names are safe from this - I'm a claire/clair/clare, but only because my mum told my aunt she wanted to call me Laura, my aunt heard Nora - which put my mum off Laura!!

I've an Isaac, which is spelt Issac by most people, and an Elsie who often gets Elise instead!?

Funnily enough, the child benefit people spelt them Issac and Elise, even though they only had to copy them off their birth certificates .

DD is Evelyn, spellings this year on Christmas cards included Evelynne, Evelin, Everlyn, Evey and Evy when they cant get the full name!

Pronouncing can be a problem for some people - I pronounce her name "Everlyn" but she gets Eve Lynne a lot.

my dds name is Lauren. Ive just looked at her Christmas cards (from school friends(Yr 3) and family )and am amazed how many are spelt Lorun. I`ve never noticed before.....

Like Sweetkitty my dd3 is called Talia and it has been spelt all the other ways plus my HV and Midwives kept calling her Taylor.
Also same as Lockets have a Saskia dd2 who gets called Sasha really often for some reason.
Even dd1 a straight forward Charlotte got Sharlitt on an xmas card and it had been done by a parent not the child !

ProfYaffle, your girls have beautiful names.

My name's Rhonda and I get Ronda, Roda, Wanda, Rhondda. People also pronounce it incorrectly- GPs etc. DH's aunt has known me for 10 years and gets it wrong every time.

Don't think I've ever seen my name suggested on a baby thread.

alice I also have a Daisy, who gets Daisey or Daisie from MIL (goes without saying really!).

I also have a Lola, who gets Loola or Lolla.

It isn't frickin' hard people!

My dd is Daisy but some people always spell it Daisey, I thought it would be quite an easy one

Honor and it gets spelt Honour. but since thats logical i try not to be too precious about it!

My name is Claire and I get one of 3 spellings generally. I usually spell it out when telling people the first time.

Yes, people spell DD's name wrong.

We spell her name Mollie but often others write Molly

Both acceptable spellings so generally it doesn't bother me. I just crrect people or spell it out for them if giving her name for the first time. Irks me a bit with closer family/friends, but DD is 6y now and most get it right after this length of time. I know they don't do it on purpose.

Mine are always getting their names spelt wrong, but poor dd2 everyone calls her ALLANAH when her name is ELANA. Dp's family just call her Lana which i hate!

my dd is neve but if someone looks to read her name out they look at me as if to say what????is neve so hard!???makes me think i picked some kind of weirdo name! i did,nt go for the niamh version thought that would be a nightmare but she gets neave and other things put in cards

A lovely little girl at DD's nursery is called Honor and the the teaching assistant has pronounced her name sounding the H for the entire first term so that now all the other kids are mis-pronouncing it....

Can't believe the teacher hasn't said anything to her.

LOL at misspelling 'Buddy'!!! How on earth? Poor lad.
I think it just goes to show- whatever you name your children, some bozo will get it wrong!
DD's name is spelled perfectly phonetically, but is uncommon though, and people frequently think it ends in an 'a' instead of 'id'. It is complicated further by our unusual surname- also phonetic- that throws people completely.