How particular are you about your own name?

[SunnyFog]

Do you mind if other people:
spell your name differently to you;
read it differently;
use a different version.
eg if your name is Catherine do you mind:
spellings like Katherine, Kathryn;
pronunciations like cat-er-in, caff-rin;
versions like Katarina, Cateline.

I don't mind people pronouncing it incorrectly on the first go as it's unusual. I absolutely expect to help people with the correct pronunciation. It pisses me off if people I know well and interact with regularly continue to get it wrong though.

I don't think it's asking too much to expect people to call you by your correct name.

It doesn’t bother me. They’re not mind readers. I’m crap with names too, so I’m nobody to cast aspersions.

I am extremely particular about mine. It's four syllables and I swiftly and politely correct anyone attempting to shorten it.

It only ever needs to be done once in my experience which is why I find it odd people discount some beautiful names on the basis they will be shortened.

I have a very common 5 letter name which really only has one spelling (apart from some who want to be different) - think along the lines of Julie.

no one pronounces it wrong, and the only person who spells it wrong is my MIL - even after 30 bloody years. 😡

I don’t mind people spelling or saying it wrong the first time. I do mind when people shorten it and end up calling me a name which isn’t mine, it’s lazy and rude.

There are two ways of spelling my name (ie and y). Ie is probably more common and I am Y but the only thing that frustrates me is when people email me addressing me as ie. My name is in the email address people! Pay attention.

Do you mind if other people spell your name differently to you? Yes, but I just correct them. My name gets misspelt a lot.

I mind big time if they know better than I do how to say or spell it. This has happened a few times.

It doesn't have any other versions but it gets mixed up with names that have some of the same letters.

When people get the name wrong, it is usually something awful (e.g. Bryony being called Briany/Beryl/Brenda/Beverley).

I dont mind mine being mispronounced because there are 2 valid pronunciations and I like both.

My name is a common name so I no one has ever mispronounced it, however there are several ways to spell it and it is often misspelt. I do mind when I have sent emails and my name is literally in my email address and I sign off with my name.

My name only had 4 letters. Its not super common, but is also pronounced the exact same as common things in the English language- think Isla, Brooke or Ferne. Most people pronounce it correctly, and if they didn't, I'd politely correct them.

I automatically spell it out though, because they do make spelling mistakes. Sometimes ridiculous ones!

Doesn't bother me too much, because I love my name, its short and quick to spell out.

I wouldn't say 'particular', but I never shorten my name. It doesn't need shortening, it's only 2 syllables and is short in length. There is a common shortening, but I have never seen this as my name. People who know me well never use it. Very occasionally, someone who knows me less well tries to be over familiar and shorten it. I just state my full name back, with a smile, and they'll apologise and move on.

So not particular as such, but I'm not afraid to correct people if they do attempt to call me something which isn't my name. I don't understand why you wouldn't. If you never correct people calling you something you don't like, how are they to know you don't like it? You'll be stuck being known as something you hate forever more!

My name is a bit like "bob"
Very short. No way to shorten it, no way to misspell it.

Sometimes people think they must have heard wrong and call me " robert" but I just say- " its bob"

I don't like my name but I'm used to it

I have a name that has two spellings and mine is the slightly less common one. I'm not really too fussed if people get it wrong, although I did have one situation where an employer would spell it wrongly on everything, even though I had corrected them and I'd worked there for years and that did annoy me.
As a child, I remember feeling really short-changed when I couldn't buy badges, pencils etc with my name on.

I must admit to having a very simple name but there is an English spelling and an Irish one.

I am of strong Irish heritage hence mine is the Irish spelling but if anyone uses the English version it really raises my hackles. I just don't see the English version being my name at all. Might as well refer to me as any random name.

In my experience bloody relatives are the worst offenders. 😡

I think those who get salty about people misspelling their name are being a bit precious.
It doesn't matter. It really doesn't.

I can be quite particular about it with repeat offenders, as I think it’s the bare minimum to expect people to address you by your actual name. As a one-off, it doesn’t bother me at all.

Mine is Amy. It’s not unusual, easy for anybody to pronounce, and arguably the most common spelling. STILL people write ‘Aimee’, which I loathe. I’ve missed important emails in the past because the sender has typed my email address as “aimeexyz” without checking with me first.

I had a placement as a student nurse where my mentor called me ‘Hayley’ or ‘Emily’ for 12 weeks because she couldn’t be bothered to learn my name (which was on my badge!) I stopped responding to her until she was forced to use my name correctly.

It’s an incredibly common, and short name that’s pretty hard to mispronounce or misspell as an English speaker so if anyone did it would have to be on purpose. Which hasn’t happened that I can ever remember. When I’ve been abroad it’s often pronounced differently but that’s true of most names I’m sure, and doesn’t bother me.

For a short name there’s a lot of nicknames/ diminutives and I don’t really like any of them particularly. My sister and best friend call me one of them and I’m ok with that, DH sometimes uses another. That’s fine, other people doing it though does feel a bit off. I think it’s weird to just randomly use a nickname or different version when someone tells you their name - and it assumes a level of intimacy that doesn’t exist yet.

I have one older relative who insists on calling me a longer name which, though similar and maybe from same root or whatever, is just not my name. She does know my actual name; it’s not some misunderstanding- I think she thinks it’s cute and ‘our thing’ but it annoys the shit out of me. Think if my name was Ann and she insisted on calling me Annabelle.

My name is also very short, very common & really hard to misspell or mispronounce by English speakers.

Occasionally it’s misheard for a slightly longer name - think Lucy misheard as Lucille - but that really doesn’t bother me.

I have a traditional name with a different spelling (not as bad as you’re thinking ; think ‘masie” instead of ‘mazie’)

I don’t care what people call me or how they pronounce it. I’ll correct them if they ask 🤣 but for official things and people asking for my name to register details ect I have to make a point of how it’s spelt and that’s kinda annoying sometimes

I have a difficult Irish name so am used to people mispronouncing it. I lived in England and Scotland for a long time. Some knew how to say it and the ones that didn’t learnt pretty quickly. It’s a good conversation starter anyway and I’ve never been annoyed about it.

I have a difficult Irish name so am used to people mispronouncing it. I lived in England and Scotland for a long time. Some knew how to say it and the ones that didn’t learnt pretty quickly. It’s a good conversation starter anyway and I’ve never been annoyed about it.

I have a difficult Irish name so am used to people mispronouncing it. I lived in England and Scotland for a long time. Some knew how to say it and the ones that didn’t learnt pretty quickly. It’s a good conversation starter anyway and I’ve never been annoyed about it.

I have a difficult Irish name so am used to people mispronouncing it. I lived in England and Scotland for a long time. Some knew how to say it and the ones that didn’t learnt pretty quickly. It’s a good conversation starter anyway and I’ve never been annoyed about it.

I think learning how to pronounce and spell someone's name correctly is basic manners. AKAIK there is only one way to pronounce and spell mine. But if I introduce myself by my full first name, don't assume you can shorten it. If I wanted you to call me by a diminutive then that's how I'd introduce myself.

Don’t mind the miss spelling (find it ridiculous when they can’t copy off the email I’ve sent though tbh). Detest the shortening I find it very rude.

Its not even a name in its own right.