Do you have a name that is often mispronounced?

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...And does it annoy you? Or do people frequently mispronounce your DC's name?

I really like the name Louis for a boy. But I am wondering if we, and then him, are going to spend the rest of his life having to correct people when they pronounce his name with an 's' on the end... Are we condemning our future DS to a life of being irritated every time someone says his name wrong?

You know it's bad when you ditch the 'proper' alphabet and say:

F for fuckinghell, who is this so hard?
R for runt
O for oh my god can't you spell?
N for numpty
T for tosser
P for piss off
A for arse
W for wanker.

First name always getting an H added in to email replies , usually from people who I've also spoken to on the phone. It's not as if Kathy sounds remotely the same... Still, it's only as bad as constantly having the Y substituted for an IE.

Surname gets mispronounced and misspelled all the time. But that's my own fault for marrying someone with a surname noone can pronounce or spell

- am roaring Frontpaw!

I am chanelling Father Jack!

at Frontpaw.

My first name is very unusual - no one can usually say it or spell it . I tend to say it's like 'more common name' but without the H. I'm then met with blatant disbelief when I spell it.

And now I've done the same thing to DS .

I know that feeling... As if signing myself up for a lifetime of constantly spelling out both my names for people, we've given DD a first name that has multiple spellings, so we've done the same to her.

surname always misspelt/spelled
DS is Joseph - that would be with an S not a Z!! and not Joe!
friend has just named new baby boy Llewyn - I foresee trouble

I have an Irish name that never took off anywhere but Ireland. It gets mangled all the time. People ask me to spell it and it just baffles them more. My surname, which is English and is spelled very phonetically, also ends up mispronounced.

I thought I had found a foolproof name for DD1 but a lot of people give hers an IA ending where it is actually IE.

What FarelyKnuts said, except I have no dd!

So many times
I once got called breadbin
Actually more than once because my best mate thought it was hilarious and carried on calling me it

One kid in ds's class misheard my name so for years the kids called me an african country.

squoosh- yes it's Helena :) I can't remember ever meeting anyone else in England who pronounces it Hel-ee-na but I'm sure there must be a few of us out there :) I am of Irish descent and was named after my aunt so that's where it comes from. It's just astonishing how rude some people can be by telling you that it's 'wrong'- I need to move to Ireland!

Mine is Hebrew and always mispronounced unless the person already knows someone with that name (probably only if they're Jewish) and often even when I've corrected them! My MIL still (after seven years) can't (or won't?) say it.

But I don't mind, don't let it stop you calling him Louis, he will just be good-humoured about it.

I'm Irish metro that's how I could guess. There are lots of Helena's in my family whose name is mispronounced when they step off the island.

I suppose you just get used to correcting people. I have to spell my surname at least 3 times every day. If I speak to someone on the phone, sign for a delivery etc.

I had a Helen-a and a Hel-ee-na in school with me in secondary in Ireland. The Helen-a had to correct teachers all the time. (Correcting teachers was something she enjoyed very much, so prob no skin off her nose.)

Not mispronounced but for some reason in Glasgow people hear my name as 'Daisy' rather than Stacey which is a bit annoying, especially when I spell it out to them and they say 'oh, STACEY!' haha! I have an older relative who's called me Tracey all my life.

Yes, Im Rhiannon. Pre 2009 no one could prenounce it. My mothers best friend still calls me 'Ranna'. Post 2009 everyone now says 'oh, you mean Rihanna like that song ELLAELLAELAAEHEHEH'. Nope, like that song 'Rhiannon' by Fleetwood Mac, but nice try douchebag.

Yesterday I spelt my name in Phones4U and the sales assistant said 'two n's? are you sure?'

My sister is Olwen. Everyone calls her Owen and mentions how odd a name that is for a girl. . Shes now pretty much goes by Oz to save hassle. My daughter has Olwen as a middle name and my PIL will not try to spell it correctly.

I love my name but sometimes wonder why couldnt my mother have gone for her original selection of Rebecca?!

when I am in England and speak English I mispronounce my own name, lol. It does flow better that way.... when I speak German I say it correctly and Germans tend to also :)
So, in that respect THAT does not bother me.... what does bother me is if people just shorten a name without your permission or make it "cuter"....
I always liked the name Frederic for example...than my mum comes along and says...oh yeah Freddy that is cute... (and of course she said it in German which made it sound WORSE, i.e. very harsh!) ....put me of that name there and then...lol ....Frederic was not called Frederic after all, he was called Flynn instead. NO issues of mispronunciation nor of shortening nor making it longer....

My son is called Louis and 9 out of ten people when reading it for the first time pronounce it Lewis.
He is 3 and a half and now corrects people himself with "I'm not Lewis, I"m Louis, Loo-eee (he slows it down the second time in case you missed it!) it's not hard you know!"

Does anyone else not find it a bit lazy if you are having to correct the same people on how to pronounce your name especially if they are a part of your family.

It can be very helpful - my name is mispronounced and misspelt 99 times out of a 100 in many many different ways.
So I always know who sold my details for a mailing list - subsequent mail has the same misspelling.

My name is never spelt right (amie not amy, aimee, amiee, ami or any other version) but not ever said wrong fotunatley. With the exception of one lecturer at college who insisted on calling me arnie for the year I took his subject (du to the way I write my m's apparently looking like an r n )
One teacher at school frog marched me to the heads office with a cats bum mouth demanding to see my school record as she thought I'd changed the spelling of it "to be more interesting"

I have done the same sort of sleuthing with mine, BasilDonna. I also know to put the phone down when I answer it and someone mangles my name -- people who know me can pronounce it and those who don't are usually trying to sell me something.

Yep, this happens to me too - mainly the speling is wrong. Quite often called called by my surname in work emails as that is pretty easy.

Oh God yes, I get this loads. It's so wearing now that I often just make myself sound about 100 by giving my name as Mrs Surname rather than giving my first name (my surname being easy to pronounce). I've even been known to make a name up when I was younger and getting chatted up in a noisy bar, I just couldn't be doing with repeating it 20 times, then spelling it, then them getting it wrong because it's pronounced differently to how it is spelt. Gah! I've been called all sorts of wierd things, the best being Yoda. Which is really nothing like my name.