AIBU people ignoring my name

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So this is lighthearted, but its really starting to grate on me, make me feel slightly patronised :(

I wont use my actual name but a similar one...

Birth name similar to Jane, but have only ever been called Janie.

All my official emails, signatures etc are Janie. Why do people insist on then calling me Jane in replies or on the phone etc

My mother's name was Bessie. People, i.e. officialdom, were always changing it to Elizabeth, much to her annoyance.

My work email has initial dot surname@ organisation, so no clue there.

My signature black CK has my full name, but for people I'm in regular contact with, I'll use a personalised sign off with the short form. In conversation, I always go by the short form.

If someone has emailed me, I'll use the name as spelt in their own signature block.

I feel your pain. I have a name that has several different nicknames that could be used, similar to maybe Rebecca. Now I am more than happy to respond to my full name (although it is very rare it is ever used), I always introduce myself using my nickname. Yet people always use a different nickname that I have never been associated with no matter how I introduce myself.

Some people just have their ears for decoration I think.

I have a long name which offers numerous nicknames. I have frequently been addressed by the most common short version, which just so happens to be a name I detest and will not answer to. Never mind that I have just introduced myself by the long version eh?

One of my exes struggled with this too, he was actually named Tommy. Not Tom or Thomas, but Tommy. That was on his birth certificate and what he went by, yet so many people took it upon themselves to address him as Thomas or Tom.

I always address people by what they have introduced themselves as, because I know how rage-making it is to be called something which is not your name.

I have a long name which offers numerous nicknames. I have frequently been addressed by the most common short version, which just so happens to be a name I detest and will not answer to. Never mind that I have just introduced myself by the long version eh?

I have this exact problem. I like my full name. And don't recognise any shortening as being myself.

I worked with someone who’s name could be a short version of a longer name. Think Tim rather than Timothy, his name was the short version on his birth certificate etc. People insisted on sending correspondence to Timothy.

I also worked with a lady with a double first name think Ann-Marie and she said she is Ann-Marie or AM, never Ann or Marie. A guy at work insisted on calling her Ann...she told him every day numerous times 🙈

I have this happen to me too people occasionally call me by a very old fashioned shorter version of my name I find the death stare and or completely ignoring them until they use my name properly helps 😂

I don't understand!

Do you mean (for example) your birth name is Mandy but people mistakenly call you Amanda?

Argg. I get people 'correcting' my name all the time. What is on my driving licence, passport, tax file, was on my military ID, etc is my legal name, but a shorter form of what is on my birth certificate. People still change it though. And they never look at my signature block to see the spelling either.

And just to complicate matters, my nickname which tends to be used at work is an even shorter form, which is also my initials, as there are two of us with the same name (but different spellings) in our small work team.

My wife has a relatively common name which can be spelt at least three different ways that I can think off. It really annoys me when people on her Facebook page spell it one of the other ways.
It's right there in front of them - how can they still get it wrong?!

I get people calling me the wrong name all the time as it’s one of two relatively common names that have a different last letter (think Diane / Diana, although that’s not the actual names). It’s particularly irritating, when they manage to send an email to [email protected], and then start the email with “Hi Diana”.

Also doesn’t help that some people misinterpret my accent to think that my name is totally different to Diane or Diana...