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

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MumofBaby · 30/12/2008 12:13

What is your child called, and what do they GET called?

Everyone spells DS's name wrong, but it is spelt a few different ways so I can forgive it.

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annemarie30 · 30/12/2008 13:07

DD gets called Casey..her name is Cassie..how hard is it to get it right?

eandh · 30/12/2008 13:01

dd2 is Hattie except this year (strangely not last year though) we have had lots of Hatty in xmas cards and the vicar (grrr because he is local vicar who married us, christened dd1 and basically knows us) pronounced her name as hate - ee at her christening and forgot to mention her middle name (it was important to me as its Alice which was dh grandmother and she had been very poorly but made the c hristening sadly she died a few weeks ago)

bronze · 30/12/2008 12:39

jollyoldstnickschick Matthew should have two ts shouldnt it?

My daughter is Nia which is a perfectly respectable welsh name. shame I live in Enlgand as shes always being called Mia even by people who have seen it written down.

PaddingtonBore · 30/12/2008 12:38

lots of people mis-spell DD's name, though no-one mispronounces it.

Her name is very old, and has only one spelling, but it is not the easiest to guess if you've not seen it written down.

Pinkjennybellrock · 30/12/2008 12:36

Dd is called Alexa, and gets Alexia, Alexis and Alexi.

It drives me completely insane. Grrrr.

shanks313 · 30/12/2008 12:35

We have Miley and people often call her Millie.

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MumofBaby · 30/12/2008 12:31

By the way, I'm trying for a baby soon, and I'm using this thread as inspiration for names, but also judging tricky names.

Love Talia. And Malia.

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sweetkitty · 30/12/2008 12:24

DD2 is Talia she gets Tahlia and Thalia sometimes.

Most people can pronounce it correctly Tah-LEE-ah apart from my Dad who still calls her Tal-YAR and she is almost 3, I let it go at Christmas but on her birthday I am going to say Dad listen she's is 3 now can you make an effort to say her name properly it's not that difficult repeat after me Tah-LEE-ah.

Thank goodness none of them have Gaelic names.

jingleMAMADIVAsbells · 30/12/2008 12:20

My son has a pretty normal name so can't be spelt wrong or pronounced wrong.

But my name is Stacy and OMG in the 22 years I've been alive I think it's been spelt right about 20 times by strangers! Does my head in and I also think I've spent most of my life being called bloomin Tracey, even my family have ben known to do it from time to time

And my 2nd name is a PITA too so often get asked how to spell both and pronounce the last I am just unlucky think

Zebraa · 30/12/2008 12:18

My DS is called Charlie and everyone calls him Charles!

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MumofBaby · 30/12/2008 12:17

Kaeden.

There's a lot about round here at the moment. Some are Kaeden, some are Kayden, Some are Caden, Some are Kaden, some are Kaiden.

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jollyoldstnickschick · 30/12/2008 12:17

my ds3 is known as the matthew with 2 t's

goldFAQinsenceandmyrrh · 30/12/2008 12:15

DS2's Godmother turn up at Christmas with a present for each of them. She'd written DS2's name wrongly (which DS2 pointed out to her ) and had written "baby" (he's 19 months old and doesn't really act like a baby anymore, let along look like one LOL) on DS3's.

She said to me "I didn't know how to spell TK"..........

ermm - it's "T" "K" (not his "proper" name but what everyone knows him by, and most of the congratulations on the birth of your baby cards had TK in, and Christening cards mostly contained that too)

12StoneNeedsToBe10 · 30/12/2008 12:14

In the doctors' once, DS got called out by the girl's version of his name. He wasn't impressed!!

belgo · 30/12/2008 12:14

so what's you ds's name?