Does anyone spell or say your child's name wrong?

[MumofBaby]

What is your child called, and what do they GET called?

Everyone spells DS's name wrong, but it is spelt a few different ways so I can forgive it.

OMG - I just remembered a guy who went to register his son at the school where my mum used to work. He made no secret of the fact that he was deliberately registering his son, himself, so that the school would have his version of the child's name, not his wife's version - which was the one on the birth certificate!
The boy was called Alastair but his dad called him Alistair.
Not suggesting that your DH is doing something like this ... you just reminded me of it

We have Issac, Issak, Issaak. We spell it Isaac.

I have a celtic name which is always misspelled and mispronounced, which is a pain but completey understandable - those letters would NEVER in a million years make those sounds in English so I dont hold it against anyone

my name is Sophie when i was younger it used to sometimes get written by people as Sophia which i really hated because its a different name not just the wrong spelling.

Just remembered- my poor DH- having an unusual surname which we always have to spell out for people despite it being entirely phonetic.... he has been asked to spell Tom on numerous occasions FFS!

Stars, I feel exactly the same about being called by the -e version of my name. People always say 'what's your problem?' as if they are not different names

No, It would have irritated me forever to have constantly been correcting people so we chose names that you'd have to be exceptional thick to say or spell wrong

My son is called Hughie De'Ath and gets called whoooie (sounds like you are being sick) death (without the pause) Nice. Unfortunetly I did not see that coming when we named him. I do know he is likely to get picked on at school.

dd is Alyssa (pronounced a-li-sa) and gets Aleesha, Alicia and all sorts. She is also now 3!
I still love the name - not to 'popular' however our son has a really popular name, so spelling issues there.

hmmm...Sven, my es....sometimes gets called Seven...but normally people get it right!

ms is called Yannic ( pronoiunced Yan-nick)
and generally people get that right...had once or so someone call him Janice...but...nothing major and generally no problem.
Ys is called Flynn...and lots of people don't get it and call him Finn......surely ys name should be the eaiest for brits....he also gets spelled Flinn [yuk] ....which is just wrong....but, tbh..I don't rreally care all that much...we knew it would happen....lol

When we named dd1 we misunderstood the prounciation(sp?) of her name and so had to change her name by deed poll(only 1 letter difference)so it was spelt how we had been prounoucing it.

this was after 6 years btw

DS2 is Wilfie but we get cards to Alfie all the time. The Health Visitor insists on calling him Wil as well. My niece is Sophia but my Dad can't get his head around the pronunciation and calls her Sophie-a (as opposed to So-FEE-a). She's nearly 5 and it sends me over the edge.
Curious to know name of DD1 MrsDoyles Mole!!!

I have condemned my dd to a lifetime of wearily saying 'Two Rs, one L. Like the flower.'

One of my managers is called Manuel but he gets called anything from Manual, Manny or Emmanuel. He had to run the gauntlet of Fawlty Towers jokes as well when he started.

I honestly don't mind if it is accidental.
But my son's name is Aiden and my FIL spelt it Aidan for years, sespite DH telling him that we chose to spell it with an -e. On purpose. Luckily we don't see him very often.

I have an Esme which I pronounce Esmeee and everyone else does too - apart from my sis, who insists on saying Esmay, cos she read somewhere that this was how it is pronounced.

And even if I say I don't like Esmay, I like Esmeeee, everyone calls her Esmeee she still purposefully says Esmay all the time to wind me up. Grrr.

I have a Maddie too and it winds me up a little bit when people write it Maddy. That's just unreasonable of me I know, but it still does.

I'm English, my DH isn't. We specifically chose a name for DD that (we thought) was hard to get wrong in either language.

DD is Alexandra.
About 50% of acquaintances spell it AlexandRIA.
WTF??? She's a girl not a place (and I've never heard of anyone called Alexandria). It's not a difficult, unusual or 'foreign' name. You spell it phonetically, you'll get it right. People are just lazy lazy lazy.

I do have sympathy with those who get Claire/Clare Katharine/Catherine wrong; having said that I normally ask someone with a name like that how they spell it.

Dd1 dh and myself all have extremely easy British names, which just happen to have slight varients.
We rarely get the correct written form. This does bug me ,as I have usually spelt out the name (on forms ,or over the phone),so the writer is either not listening or ignorant. Dd2 has more unusual name which never gets misspelt.

I thought I;d managed to get a name for DS that was so phonetic and traditional it couldn't possibly be spelt wrong. Until we got Christmas cards addressed to Mummy, Daddy and SamuAl! aaaarrrhhhgg!

luciano - pronounced - loo-ch-ay-a-no

heard it so many wrong ways its not funny.

people have given up and relatives call him luca/lucio/lusy/luke

TBH I am guilty of this, my cousin's boy is called Jaime, but that's the girl's spelling (not sure that she realises) so I was spelling it Jamie for about 2 years until I realised.
It's her fault for spelling it wrong in the first place lol

I agree it is the serial offenders that are the problem. My DD has 2 ways of saying her name - We prefer the ee ending as opposed to the ay sound. Last year her teacher called her the 'wrong' name all year! As a result some of her friends say it wrong now too! I have a similar problem with her gym coach and our GP. I do correctly them but they just keeping saying it the 'wrong' way! LOL

DS on the other hand has no problems with pronounciation of his name but there are several ways of spelling his name so we get quite a vairety on cards/invites etc. (along the lines of Clair/Claire/Clare sort of name) TBH it doesn't bother me as family and close friends all manage to get it right!

My name is Claire, even my bf had it in his phone as Clair for about 2 years!!
The only thing that annoys me is when ppl say ''oh that's an unusal way to spell it''. No it isn't! it's the most common way of spelling it!
It doesn't actually bother me if ppl spell it wrong tho.

I have an Erin who loads of people pronounce "Eron". And I actually got a Christmas card from a neighbour which said "Heron"!!! She is not a bird!!!!