To be annoyed to see my (foreign) name misspelt in work email?

[Startingagainandagain]

We are working with an external agency on a project.

I am originally from an EU country and I have a first name of Latin origin, but frankly not that difficult to spell correctly.

The agency lead sent me an email, with several of my team members copied in, where they misspelt my name, anglicized it and turned it into a male name in the process...

I have spoken to the agency contact on Teams and emailed them several time so they know full well I am a woman. My name is on my email signature so there is no reason not to spell it correctly.

AIBU to think this is rather unprofessional and to feel annoyed that someone could not double-check they had spelt a foreign name correctly in a work context?

Should I point this out to them or let it slide?

YANBU, it’s rude! Your name is right there in the recipient list for them to refer to if they are unsure, so there’s no excuse for getting it wrong unless it was an autocorrect error.

I used to work with someone called Andrea. Always got letters addressed to Miss A Surname. He was a very male Italian! He started writing Andy as his name after a while. And yes, he did write Mr on his letters just so people knew, but the recipient still thought he was female!

Happens to me all the time.

emilie/Emily.

and sometimes even Emma!

misspelling is everyone even people I’ve worked with closely for 20yrs.

wrong name is usually newbies

I usually let misspellings slide but point out wrong name.

It’s very annoying but not surprising. My work email address is literally firstname.surname@ & people still spell it incorrectly 🤦🏻‍♀️

I have had several emails in the past to me using... Madeleine, Melissa, Mandy...my name begins with M, but it's not any of those names! It's easy to spell but over the years, I have received emails spelling it various ways (mainly odd ways!). In all cases, my email signature was at the bottom, so no excuse to get it wrong. Sending an email without checking who you're sending it to, and the spelling of the first name, is just as bad as sending an email full of grammar and spelling mistakes - it's unprofessional. However, there are only so many times you can correct people.

I get this all the time and have a British name, my last name is a male name, so I get emails addressing me by it fairly often. It’s rude and annoying, but really not worth getting wound up over.

I had a conversation with a very Yorkshire sounding bloke with an improbably Italian name for work purposes.
He explained that he felt much sorrier for his big brother, as his Sicilian father hadnt been quite up to speed with the implications of growing up in a small ex-mining town in the 80s as a boy named Andrea.

I have a common English name that has more than one spelling and get all sorts of variations. It doesn't bother me.

I used to know a Louise who got Lousie a lot!

I'd be so pissed at this

Like Alexandra being tuned into Alexander

I think it depend on the extremeness of it and if it could be a legitimate accident (and I say that as someone with a Latin name thats regularly butchered too).

Something like Sofia to Sophia is likely and honest mistake (happens with loads of names actually even common UK ones like Stephen/Steven, Ann/Anne, Sara/Sarah, Eric/Erik, Catherine/Katherine, Ian/Iain, Rachel/Rachael, John/Jon etc...).

However if for example you know your coworker is outspoken about foreign names being 'spelled wrong' and keeps deliberately spelling your name as Neve instead Niamh despite being corrected many times then thats entirely different.

It's likely autocorrect. I have a friend called Maure and autocorrect always wants to change it to Maude.

My colleague Marc got so annoyed at people spelling his name Mark he had a name plate on his desk changed to Marc Withersea - would always correct people

I have a very popular in my generation name and my own grandmother regularly spells it wrong. The different spelling is normally pronounced differently!!

Definitely not being unreasonable. I used to work with a Tracey Smith and a Tracy Smith. Different teams but I would need to email both of them regularly. I could never remember if the one in accounts was the one with an e or if that was the one in estates. So I would check, every time. It's just polite to do so.

I also have a foreign name and get all kinds of variation both in writing and speech, it doesn't really matter to me as it's not with malicious intent. I also called a woman Tasmin in emails for months until I noticed that her name was Tamsin. I apologised and she was cool with it so we moved on.

I'd say it's not to do with your name being foreign. I worked on a film and the producer was a close family member. They managed to spell my three letter name incorrectly despite knowing me all my life and working with me for years.
It's just a mistake/carelessness. If your email address/footer has been created with the wrong spelling then just get it sorted through IT.

I get Suzanna, Susannah, Suzanne, Susanne, Susan all wrong. I let that slide.
I dont let Cristina, Rosana, Carolina anything ending in na get by though. Those are not my name.

I work for a company whose head office is in Spain. My name frequently gets mis-spelled and mis-pronounced to another similar name. I don’t correct anyone—I just go with it. I know it’s me they’re talking to, and I know it’s not intentional. (It’s not my close team members who do this—it’s people who I may or may not ever really speak with much in the future. If it was direct team members, then yes, I would correct them.)

My name is spelled wrong all the time. I even get called different variations of my name to my face. I can't get het up about things like this. They're is so much more important things to be indignant about.

It is annoying. I have the less usual of two spellings for my pretty common first name, and an unusual, although quite simple to spell, English surname.

It really irritates me that people do not take the time to get it right, even people I've known for a long time make mistakes with my name(s).

Let it slide. It has nothing to do with being a foreign name either.

I have a very English name that can be spelt two ways and people will reply to my emails with the wrong spelling.

It happens a lot and with my British lastname.
It's laziness on their part. Failure to use correct spelling when setting it up. Ask fir it to be changed.