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.

Is that really the commonest?
I’ve only ever heard it as Aisling with a g personally. I’m in Cork.

https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fuaim/aisling

My name is impossible to spell wrongly but it does have a shortened version which is extremely commonly used and which I dislike so I generally correct anybody who tries to call me it .

I like the fact people can’t spell or say my name correctly. It’s a talking point. People often ask where it’s from and ask how to say it. Luckily they often say it’s a pretty name. I doesn’t offend me at all if people get it wrong.

My kids have straightforward names but some relatives from overseas call them all sorts of other names. My kids don’t mind at all. It never caused any confusion.
I think it’s a bit ridiculous when parents get uptight about their kids names.

I have a short name that is more common for the opposite sex, with a slightly different spelling. It drives me mad when people spell my name wrong. I also get people asking what my ‘real’ name is… ehh that’s my name! I genuinely don’t mind if people ask politely but I get annoyed when people assume it’s not my official name and ask a second time as if I’m making it up.
I always make sure to call people by the name they say, never shorten it or make it longer. I also always make sure I spell it properly. I just think it’s respectful and it’s annoying when you’re always called the wrong thing or having your name misspelled.

I know a couple Aislings but both are pronounced ‘Ash-lin’. That’s in Scotland though!

Yeah I don't care. I've got a common name for the year I was born (Rebecca) for which I use an uncommon nickname (Reba), but I don't particularly care if anyone uses any of the other myriad nicknames or spells it wrong or whatever. Becky is my least favourite and the one I'm most likely to correct, but as long as it's not my mam or my husband or someone important calling me the wrong name I'm not that bothered.

I think it’s basic manners to pay attention to other people’s names and how they’re spelled and pronounced. I have a colleague who regularly gets my name slightly wrong, despite having been introduced to me by my actual name and regularly seeing my name written down - think along the lines of me being called Isabel and him always calling me Isabella. I find it incredibly rude that someone can literally see the name Isabel in MS Teams and reply ‘Hi Isabella’.

I've said this on here before but both my aunts get my name wrong. One calls me Josh and one Joyce. They even write it on birthday cards etc.

My name is Jocelyn. I've never even gone by Joss so I have no idea where Josh and Joyce came from 🤣. So yes that does mildly annoy me.

Work colleagues regularly misspell my name which doesn't really bother me, it's a relatively unusual name. But my aunts have known me (and my name!) since birth!

I have a hyphenated name, not one of the unusual new ones but something quite ordinary. I hate being addressed by just the first part and always put them right.
But I mind less being addressed by the second part, or variations of the name and spelling. Sometimes people reverse the names, or join them into one word without the hyphen, add random letters, like “ia”, or even make up something that just sounds vaguely like it.
Mostly, I get called by my initials

That's like in my family the aunts decide if they like a name, and use a nickname they prefer. It's meant as a sign of affection, but it's funny how long it can go on for before the owner of the name asks people to stop using whatever other name they've got used to. Literally noone in my parents' generation is actually known by their paper name.

My name can be shortened but I don't like to be called by it . Thankfully I'm not often called it but I'd never correct anyone who did .

It bugs me when people spell it wrong on email as I think it's lack of attention to detail!

But otherwise I think it's fine when people are 'new' to me. I had a gift for my wedding with my name misspelled which was a shame, but from DH's friend so understandable.

Don't mind the shortened version of my name. I'll answer to both!

I am very particular, because I chose it myself! It is a short name, it's international and has two recognised spellings. Unfortunately, I occasionally get people mistaking it for another (nice, but not my) name, or pronouncing it the American way.

My previous name was a nightmare. I got 13 different spellings on my Christmas cards one year. It was mispronounced a lot, with two or three syllables depending on your accent, and I got in bother for not answering to the boys' pronunciation of it. I also had a few people say, "Oh, you're a girl..." ("Well, clearly, as these two large bumps under my jumper indicate!") when I went for interviews. I hated it from childhood and declared that I would change it one day. A friend's relative swapped the last letter to make it more obvious that she was female. It is a well-known name, but I'm glad that I ditched it!

My name is very often mis-spelt and that doesn't bother me, not everyone is good at spelling/ are dyslexic. I don't mind people initially getting my name wrong as it is uncommon. I DO mind it being shortened. Family and VERY close friends call me an abbreviation but if I didn't know someone extremely well it's find it way too familiar of them

I have a traditional name that I have always shortened when referring to myself and have never called myself the long name
A close relative regularly calls me by long name and it bloody irritates me ! My parents have always called me by short name.

My name is easy to say but has spelling variants. I don't really care if people get it right or not. My married surname is the same. Life is too short to get frazzled about it.

You can't pronounce mine incorrectly but I've used the common/traditional shortened version of it for 35 years. I genuinely don't think to answer if someone uses it randomly, I even have to remind myself when I'm in a waiting room or something. The only person who does use it, is my mother who hates me, so it does make me cringe.

My name is spelt with a K but is also commonly spelt with a C. People always pronounce it correctly it just isn’t always spelt right when written down, not an issue 🤷🏻‍♀️ does make me have a little giggle to myself when I say my name to someone that has to type it into something and they do a little finger dance over the keyboard between C and K before I tell them how to spell it.
My friends and some family call me a shortened version, it gets my back up a little when other people call me the shortened version if I haven’t introduced myself with it but ultimately I know I can’t do much about it.
My surname also has multiple spelling options so having to spell out both names gets annoying.

My name got shortened by friends at primary school. I've always called myself by the short name and it was only about 10 years ago that I actually realised that I never deliberately decided to call myself by the short name even though that is how I refer to myself. Only family and family friends and my partner call me by my 3 syllable name. I always hated my long name but now I'm older I like it more. Don't know why.

My name has many spellings which I don’t mind at all, easy to pronounce though.

Not fussy at all. Which is lucky as people generally can’t say or spell it. I e close family members who can’t spell it and I’ve had co workers mispronounced my name for years. It doesn’t bother me at all.

I’m a Kirsty and the amount of people who call me/write my name as Kristy is unreal.

Fair enough as a genuine spelling error but they don’t even sound the same when spoken.

I’m not mad about people shortening it to Kirst either, sounds like ‘cursed’. But I let that one go, life’s too short.

I am very particular. My full name is long, and I dislike anyone calling me by it. It is occasionally unavoidable amongst some officialdom, though.

There is a shortened two-syllable version which I use with colleagues, acquaintances and casual friends, and on most official documents.

Then there is a shorter, single-syllable 5 letter version which most of my close friends use. God (and I) forbid that others to whom I am less close use it. I am (apparently surprisingly) strict about this.

And then there is a the shortest, single syllable, three-letter version (pronounced the same as the five-letter name, but spelt differently) which my close American friends use, which makes me smile. Again, I don’t let anyone who isn’t a close friend use it.

I have a short, easy to read simple name that's very, very popular. Therefore noone really says it wrong. However, there are a surprising number who spell it wrong.

It doesn't bother me. Some people can't spell.