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

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Kristina

People are just lazy ,my sil was a Carolyn so many people called her Caroline .

I have the Polish version of your name (a short form)
People have called me the wrong name all of my life, even friends can't pronounce it correctly.
Some people seem to be 'tone deaf' when it comes to repeating back a pronunciation, especially if they've read the name first, but to write it incorrectly in emails, etc, is surely just laziness?
It's not quite the same issue, but I do feel your pain a little, op.

I myself have a seventies hyphenated name ,say" Sarah-Jane" ,people can't get their heads around why I want ro be called by my full name and not just "Sarah" and think I'm the the rude one for correcting them 🤷‍♀️

@KirstenBlest yes! Exactly that happens to me too.

omg we have the same name and JUST THIS MORNING I had "Good morning Christine" on an email. Fucking drives me nuts and it's so RUDE when it's written RIGHT THERE!

This is very funny 😄, if MN makes it a link.

@FlippertyGibberts , but there is no umlaut in the name.

My DD has a name that ends in a. Not the name that is similar but without the a. To me they are very different names. Like (but not) Diana and Diane. Somehow people seem incapable of dealing with the a version. So she gave up part way through school and became Di.

DM used to get “Ellen”. My surname is Aston and I get Ashton, Austin, Olsen, and randomly NatWest once decided I was Mrs Avistad (I had an account with them, under my real name).

We have an Irish surname, which isn’t complicated, and it’s always mispronounced and misspelled. Even when I offer to spell it out the other person will frequently rush ahead and spell it wrong.

We have a family friend whose daughter is called Tasha, my mother in law insists on calling her Trisha despite the mother being her close friend for over 30 years and knowing the daughter for all of that time too. I think it’s incredibly rude of her.

I think some people have a small hole where the information was meant to be stored. A friend of my mother's was nearly telling me my name. She has died now. But every time I said, no it's not Abigail, it's xxxxx she'd look like I'd changed my name recently or I was winding her up.

Gets names mixed up happens all the time, especially if it's as insignificant as one letter at the end. It's not a big deal as people rarely do it on purpose.

I have a similar unusual name to yours and have been called Caroline, Claudia, Cornelia, totally different names that sound somewhat in the same category. Can't say it's ever offended me as it's not been done maliciously

Yes, I do get it, the names Annabel and Abigail are not that alike but I know somebody who connects them in her head. Whatever schema she has for sorting names, these two fall through the same cookie cutter. Iykwim.

I rarely forget a name. Even an Irish name, sur names too. But if you give me directions!!! I can only remember the first instruction

The same way as the name Christina is pronounced

Yep my maiden name is Irish it's not one of the more complicated to spell ones or say either ,but people mispronounce it and misspell it constantly ,it's not helped that there are a couple of different ways to spell it either .