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

ds is Evan, we've had everything from Euan, Ewan, Eevan, Ivan(?), Kevin, Even, Evion(??)

dd is sophie. we have had it spelt sofy a lot. no need.

My ds name has 2 spelling's and a lot of people have spelt it wrong in xmas cards this year, even people that are quite close. His name is Buddy.

My DD is called Ciara and gets mis-spelt all the time and mispronounced. Some of them are Keira, Kiera, Ceira, Ciera.

My name is a bog standard one, but it can legitimatly be spelt in 2 different ways (like Claire/Clare).
I agree that, with people who don't know you, it's easy to forgive as they have a 50/50 chance of getting it right ... they could however ask, or is that too shocking??

DD's name is a traditional one, too. No problems with spelling or pronunciation. We use the diminutive of it and she's going to spend her life saying "with an ie, not a y!" just like me ... ah well.

I think it's a different matter with family and friends.
I've known DH all-but 10 years and most of his family still spell my name wrong. I'm not holding out much hope tho as MIL is still waiting for her MIL to spell her name (Carol, without an e) properly ... after 43 years

Georgia-Mae

She is nearly 5 and prefers her full name, although we do shorten it ourselves to Georgie and George.

I wouldn't mind but she gets Georgina and Georgiana, from SIL and BIL

She also gets all sorts of spellings Giorgia, even Giorgio????? and Mae is often spelt as May...

Step dd is Annabel and more often than not gets Annabelle....

ds has a name like Noel, we didn't think there would be any pronunciation issues but I find it much more annoying than I thought I would that some people pronounce it no-ELL whereas I prefer, roughly, Nole. But that's just fussy on my account.

at Gabriel/Gabrielle! Great names for boy and girl but pretty different surely!

It's interesting that a close relative, whose name is Charlotte, used to get called Sharon and Caroline all the time, but now that Charlotte has been in the top 10 for so many years, it is finally being spelt and pronounced right. I do think that people don't listen much to other people's names, though.

My DD is Amy and often gets cards written to Aimee and Ami. I always thought Amy is the traditional way of spelling this name is it not?

dd2 is Xanthe, we often get Zanthe (understandable) but Zanti and Zantia annoy me, we've even had Nancy which is just amusing. My name is far more pedestrian but even that gets mis-spelt all the time.

my name is alona alone--a n its never been right in 30 yrs lol n my dd1 is kyra gets kiera kirah n a million others n dd2 is jenna n everyone sends cards with jennifer or genna there not hard names

ds is Isaac...how far wrong can you go with that I thought when naming him but no not only do a considerable number of people misspell it as
Issac but they mispronounce it too! We say Eye Zach
They say Eye Sick. Argh

DD is Zora and her Christmas card off my aunt said Zorra, which had me pmsl. The Mask of Zorra People also think she's called Laura.

dd is maia pronounced my-ah but loads of adults outside the family call her mia (mee-ya) grrrrr bugs me!

All the 2 years olds in her nursery group can pronounce it though.

We also get lots of cards addressed to mia and miai ???!

DD2 is Amelie (known as Millie) but a good friend of mine recently introduced her to someone else as Armani. WTF???

DH alway gets called Gabrielle too

DD is Caiela and we get a lot of Caiella. Variations in the Christmas cards this year also include Kyella, Kyla, Kyler and Cylia.

DS is Douggie and people often spell it with one g, we have also had Duggie.

Claire is usually spelt wrong too

My DDs have french names but are english too iyswim. People still spell their names wrong. I'm shocked to find that DD1's best friend still spells it wrong after knowing each other for 2 years. That really bugs me now cos it's plain laziness.

I don't regret what I've done but hadn't realised how lazy and ignorant some people are when it comes to spelling other peoples name once they get to know them.

My ds is Lewis. Loads of people spell it Louis It's not even the same bloody name.

Dts1 is called Niall, it gets spelled in some interesting ways. Including once by a family member who wrote Nile and I wondered if she thought he was named after the river!

And of course there is the fact that here in Scotland Niall can get pronounced as Neil but we went with the Irish pronounciation.

My other dts is Adam, can't go far wrong with that!

On a similar note to dashboard, my daughter is Mia and is constantly called Maya. Even by people who we've known for years. My boss for example has called her Maya for 2 years. After correcting her for the first month or so, it starts to get really embarrassing.

PS dash, love Taya. Wish I'd gone with it.

I am a Clair and yes I can quite understan it. Indeed I vary between Clair and Claire myself ( a legacy of my teen years). Bt Samuel? How can that be spelld rong LOL (although it does make me LO as Samule puts me in mind of an ass)

Harriet, which I thought was as straightforward as you can get, was Harriett, Harriot and Harriette on birth and Christmas cards. Expecting a fresh lot of nonsense for birthday next week...

I can understand it if you or your dc have an unusual name or spelling because it is hard to know which Clare/Claire Clair or Katherine/Catherine etc you are writing for but family really should know. My ds is called Ciaran (traditional Irish spelling) but despite writing it really clearly in cards, we had to actually point it out to dh's step-sister. His friends at school spell it all sorts of ways

DD's dad spells her name wrong in the rare cards he sends