From a quick glance how would you have pronounced my name?

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Kristina

Snap! All throughout school too. Only thing they have in common is beginning with an R.

George

I also suffer name aggravation. Think Westwood (she shares my spelling), Leigh but also a male character from U.K. 80’s TV comedy. Always hated it, the older kids at school, in my brother’s year knew the latter not the first two so I got plenty of “you’re a boy - and a fat one at that!!”

Now, even though I ALWAYS ALWAYS sign work emails with the 3 letter shortened variant, I get the full version so often and regularly misspelt. If you’re going to use my full name at least use the one in the freaking email address, FFS!!!

I’ve been asked many times why I don’t change it but I’m nearly 47, and even when I was 18, to what?? I couldn’t my imagine myself as anything else. I don’t like my middle name much either - Anne - but at least it goes with the first one, if something of a mouthful.

Since marriage 24 years ago, I went from a 4 letter surname to 8, so my full name is rather lengthy and being left handed too, I never mastered the scrawl that my right handed dad (with his short name) and husband both do. My husband thinks it’s hilarious that my signature looks so similar every time I write it, but hardly surprising when forming all the letters!

It's nothing to do with your particular name, but I don't understand how this happens and I would really like to know as this sort of thing has plagued my entire life.

My first name is well known and my second name is very short and the same as a fairly well known place.

Any time I tell people my name to register with something or whatever, it goes like this.

My name is Sara Yorke, that's Sara with no h, Y O R K E (it's not obviously).

The person I've just spoken to writes down Sarah York on their form. If they have to hand me over to a colleague, they'll say 'Sarah Yorky is here'

They change the pronounciation from the one they've just heard.

They change the spelling from the one I've just given them.

WHY??

Some people just don’t read things properly. It always winds me up when someone spells my name wrong when replying to an email.

Interesting that someone else has confusion between Rebecca and Rachel. One of my friends is a Rebecca and often says people want to call her Rachel.

People are strange, I have a R name but always get called Rebecca. My name is not Rebecca, sounds nothing like Rebecca and has less syllables than Rebecca. Even worse is when they shorten Rebecca to Becky or Becca and get pissed that I'm not answering them!

I know a Kirsty and she just gets Kirsty all the time, or Kristine! Even from family.

I feel your pain. Personally I think Your name is very easy to pronounce (for a continental European)

My name is a continental version of Catherine. I can count the number of times people spelt my name correctly (even after having spelt it to them or have it in my email sender). Is it really do difficult to copy a name that’s in a bloody email signature?

Maybe it’s because it’s not nearly as usual to have it spelt with a K (in my experience in England, anyway), so people who look at it default to other K names. And Christina’s are often mis-remembered as Christine. So you’re getting both of those mis-reads. V annoying.

Surely it’s a memory thing rather than a pronunciation thing? Christine was a really common name for my age group, Kristina is more modern and not so common, so if I was struggling to remember your name, I’d be more likely to land on the former.

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I would pronounce it:
Kris-teen-ah

Kristina doesn’t autocorrect to Christine and I was a client so they had my details when they made the call.

The Rebecca and Rachel thing is bizarre but clearly common.

I think I get more peeved when I get a response to an email and my name is wrong or when I’ve corrected someone and they say it again:

Do you have a foreign surname?

My first name is a very common English name with no variants at all. My surname is foreign. You’d be amazed how often people get my first name wrong. It’s as though the second they see the foreign part, they can’t handle the first name.

No I have a fairly common English surname.

A girl in my street growing up was called Christina. Because sooooo many people kept calling her Christine, I had to ask her again was it Christine or Christina because I was doubting myself. But no. It was definitely Christina, she had just gotten too embarrassed to keep correcting people. Even when I said Christina in front of people, they still said Christine. It was bizarre. I don't know if people think it's a short version of the same name or what.

I have a two syllable last name that sounds exactly as spelt. It's not common, but not unusual or foreign. So many people get it wrong I just think they don't read it properly.
My first name is a bog standard, common as muck name. I had at least one other girl in any class with it. The other day at a coffee meet up three of 10 shared this name. Still people get it wrong - one guy I knew professionally and had to message occasionally always spelt it wrong, despite me signing off with my name. I think people just don't pay attention.

This happens because some people are stupid.

I get called the different versions of my name. I only feel insulted if it's somebody who should know me well enough to know my name! It's the first thing and so if the 'relationship' moves beyond that, work or social it's annoying.

A woman who is a kind of local politician does it to me every time she sees me. I called her out on it, with q smile. Said oh Sarah Sarah you should know my middle name as well at this point ha ha, maybe we should swap jobs!!

I get called Lisa and Tracey. Neither of them my name, not even close, but of my generation and area. People just think quickly and grasp the first name that comes to mind sometimes.

I have a name that I spell ending in a Y. Always have! And yet a close friend always ends it with an i. Mad.

Kris-DEEN-a
I know a few Christinas, Cristinas and Kristinas
A couple of them go by Tina

This happens because people are stupid and don't care.

My name is phonetically easy and logical and has an English equivalent. If I say my name, they write the English equivalent. Fine, how would they know. But if I spell it, they use the same letters in a different order to what I just said and it makes no grammatical sense. I have to re spell it at least twice. Sometimes more. The name has 5 letters in it. How can they get it so wrong?

My surname again, foreign but barely and makes perfect grammatical sense... butchered every time. If I spell it, they can't keep up and if I write it down they say it horrifically.

I think these are the people who have a name that simply can only be spelt one way, everyone just knows and just don't get it. Like Samantha smith.

I have the same, @QuePrima , simple name and phonetic. The letters get rearranged. Not the actual name but something like Dawn being written as Dwan.

KrisTEENa.

I know an Alexandra who was repeatedly called Alexander - the boys’ version - by a teacher. It’s not as if she even remotely resembled a boy, very long hair.
So infuriating, especially from someone who really ought to know the difference.