Did she mishear my name?

[HuhItsNot]

Just on the phone and was asked for my name.
Danielle.
"Could you spell that please?"
"D A N I E L L E"
"Thanks, very unusual that, its nice"

🤔

Its not unusual at all, is it?!

I have the same name and am very very close to changing it because I am sick to death of being called Daniel. Even when someone is standing in front of me, holding a piece of paper with my name on it and looking at me
I am not a man so my name is not Daniel! It’s not hard

Examples…

I'd say that's her go-to phrase when she has trouble hearing someone whether due to a poor line / strong accent / background noise. It saves face and justifies asking someone to spell it.

In another job I had to pass on information regarding a restaurant, A Taste of China. The document arrived stating 'A Pastry Tile'. So maybe a uniform policy of asking for spelling is no harm.

I've had this my whole life too.

Sympathies.

I remember a bloke at work ordering something over the phone to be delivered (before covid). Graham Booth.

Package arrived addressed to Mr G Booze.

Actually it fitted him.

See it only started around 2020 for me, I never had any issues before then!
if I say Danny- yell then people get it but if I say it how it’s meant to be said then they say Daniel
but then I send emails from my name, sign it with my name and they reply Hi Daniel

hospital once called me and then got shitty I didn’t reply in the waiting room but they said Daniel and my surname wrong so I didn’t even realise it was me. I said “well I’m not male, and that’s not my surname so…”

I remember being mortified in school as we were learning about the origin of names and mine was read out as 'the female version of Daniel' and everyone laughed and said I must be a boy 🙄

It’s frustrating when I’m standing in front of someone with boobs that require scaffolding and they go “Daniel”
me

I won a dance competition once and they asked my name to put it on the certificate and I said "Karen" and when I got home, the certificate said "Kevin". I know I've got small boobs but, ffs! lol

I don’t know a Danielle under 30 so maybe if she’s younger, she’s not come across many?

I once had a wrong number call for someone wanting 'Danielle' - perhaps it was you, OP 😆

The posters suggesting Banielle 🤣🤣

Nope, it's not unusual! It's probably not a name that's heard a great deal these days, but definitely not unusual. In fact, Danielle is my sister-in-law's name!!

I've used the "please can you spell it for me" for someone I haven't heard, especially on the phone as my hearing isn't brilliant. I'm then praying they don't say something obvious like "Eve".
But I'm also a dreadful speller, so I do also use it when I have a complete blank on how to spell a perfectly normal name.

Someone once asked me to spell 'Jones'. One of the most common surnames in England.

Admit it, you just posted that so that everyone could point out it is even more common in Wales, didn't you?

Was she quite young? I work with a woman named Gemma (lots of them born in the late 80s, early 90s) and a couple of our new graduates have commented on her "unusual" name.

I don't know any British Danielle's.
I know a Canadian, a Belgian, at least two Germans and an American.
I also know a couple of Daniela's. Also German.
So, it may be that she is not familiar with it assuming you are British.

Do not approve of the apostrophes here, but autocorrect insisted!

I had a lecturer who wasn’t great at remembering faces and names. When giving back work, if he couldn’t remember your name, he’d ask “How do spell it again?” My friend replied “S M Y T H, how else?”.

In fairness, that's not the most common spelling of that surname!

I agree though that this approach is risky - they might say 'with an H' or something, then you are left in a more embarrassing position. Better to just say, I'm terrible with names, sorry, remind me what your surname is?

It’s very of it’s time. She might be a young en