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.

dd2 is called Katarina and gets called Katrina by loads of people, she's also been called 'Catriona' by someone reading her name off a form . The inlaws still can't spell it right.

Ds1 is Lewis and people always ask how it is spelt, L-E-W-I-S or L-O-U-I-S. Even family some family members write Louis in birthday/christmas cards.

Ds2 is Noah and someone put Noa on a card.

My name gets spelt wrong quite often too, 1 N instead of 2, the E missing off the end

2 of my dcs regularly get their name misspelt.

My ds is Matthew and loads of people mainly close freinds and his classmates (who must see his name written down virtually everyday ffs) spell it Mathew. My dh says they are either thick or lazy.

Personally if I am unsure I just ask is that the x spelling or the y spelling.

oh my jeez yep yep yep!! my DD is sian and we have t correct people calling her sean someone calle her see-an and she has had cards from family members spelling it sharne how hard is it to get 4 letters in the right order??

my name is eileen and i am constantly being called irene/elaine/helen/ellen/eilen it is as old as the hills so not really a name that most people wouldnt have heard of really i get wrong spelling aswell...
irlene, eleine, elleen, irelen, aislene, one of the best was eiraleane some people just like to overcomplicate things and are obviously so self absorbed that they cant engage their brains for long enough to hear me say MY NAME IS EILEEN E-I-L-E-E-N

Sorry Tigger-your post had me in stitches.
How thick are some people surely when you tell someone once that your child is called Sian and tell them how you pronounce it that should be the end of it.
I disagree with the poster who said about giving a child a simple name that noone can mis-spell. Look at Ann/Anne Jo/Joe etc and like I said how difficult is Matthew to spell?
I remember a woman once telling me that her child was called Jay. She told me how a friend of hers said "You have called your child J, just the letter J and that's it?" She had to reassure her several times that Jay is actually a real name, like Kay is also a name.

simplesusan if i didnt have this on a daily basis i would most likely laugh too this goes hand in hand with being told 'did you know there is a song with your name in it??' well yes i happen to have hear5d it sung (off key) to me one or twice...a day.. every day of my GODFORSAKEN EXISTANCE SO STOP EFFIN SINGING THE FARKING THING!!
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My DD is Freya and family and colleagues often seem to go for Thea. Not that there is anything wrong with Thea - I've even stopped correcting them now.

Yes - we have Maya (my-ah). If I'd known how much it would be mispronounced and misspelt I'd never have chosen it. She gets called May-a and Mia and Myra by her own grandmother who also can't seem to spell it right. Mostly spelt Myah, Mya. . .the list goes on!

Tigger- My mom is Eileen. 'That' song was in the charts when she went two weeks overdue with my brother... People kept ringing her and playing it down the phone...

My name is Tamsin, not Tasmin. When I started at my new school (teacher) the laptop I was assigned had Tasmin on it. As did my login. I let the sticker go, but I refused to spell my own name wrong to access the systems and insisted they changed it.

My daughter is Anabelle Frances. She gets all sorts of variations on Anabelle, which I don't mind. I did object to Annie recently though... She prefers Ana. H spells Frances wrong all the time (Francis) and she was names for HIS gran!

I teach a Louis that is pronounced Lewis and Siobhan that is pronounced See-oh-be-ann. They call her Oh-be for short. Both kids told me their names and I've got them right ever since. I always check pronunciation first time I take the register, then I remember! It's not exactly hard.

We have a Rhidian. Everyone can pronounce it but we've had all sorts of spellings, even here in Wales - 'Rhydian' I can forgive because that's a perfectly legitimate (and I think slightly more common) spelling, but we also get Rhiddian, Rhyddian, Rhidyan, Ridian, Rhydwen (from my dad, for about a month after he was born) and once, inexplicably, Lydia!!

pml at all of the above especially people confusing Lydia for Rhidian!!!!!!!!!
Where does that come from?

oldspeckledtam the bastard thing song went to number bloody one 2 weeks after i was born (i was born may 1982 and the song went to number one june 1982) it has been the bane of my existance
my mum is called siobhan and often gets odd spellings from pretty much everyone my nan (dads mum) spells it shivorn abd she has known her for 32 years!! there was a girl at my junior school who was called siobhan and her own mum couldnt even pronounce it right!! the girl was telling everyone that she had a 'traditional irish name as her mum is half irish' but was pronouncing it sa-born i corrected her and she was rather rude about it really though if your family is irish surely you can at least say your name correctly!! i thought she may have mis-heard her mum when she actually said we are half chavvish
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Yep I'm Ellen and have been asked 'What's that short for?' or called Helen or Elin and I didn't really think it was an unusual name..
My niece is constantly being called the wrong name as her name is not English but is EASY topronounce but people still insist on pronouncing it wrong. Drives me mad ket alone my sister!

When you think about it actually a huge proportion of names have alternative spellings or are easily confused with other names - so it's kind of forgivable if the person doesn't know you.

But it does rile me when close friends and people who have known us for years get DS's name wrong. OK it's a bit unusual but it's only 5 letters and very straightforward. It ends in -ie and loads of people write it without the -e (eg if it was Charlie they would write Charli) - wtf is that about?

I have no issues with people generally mis-spelling my dc's names (although my dc's names are all spelled the 'traditional' way), but when family do it, it realllllly winds me up!

My dd1 is Lucy. Straightforward, yes? Ok, it can be spelled Lucie, so maybe I could let that go, but she has had 'Loosey' on a card before now. Loosey?? Loosey?? WTF?? And that was off her aunt!!

@ loosey!! i think your MNid could be quite easily applied to that person who sent the card plonker

that is exactly what riles me!! it is not as bad if it is a stranger but when it is my family or DH's it really pees me off!!

My aunty has never spelt my name correctly on birthday and Christmas cards/presents. Not once in 34 years.

funny thread which has me laughing! I despair alongside most of you but come on! some of you deserve hassle!! why would anybody spell Aidan 'Aiden' or Annabel 'Anabelle'. That's just asking for trouble.

Very funny about the Amelia being introduced as Armani!! ONe's very classic and the other's an Italian sur name!

Hi all,
I'm with Maggie - some unusual spellings of names are asking for trouble! I used to teach a girl named Chole (pronounced like Chloe - can only presume the parents spelt it wrongly when registering the poor child).

My daughter is called Polly. She is routinely called Poppy or Holly, even by close friends. About 10% of the cards we received on her birth had the wrong name on it.

My name is unusual, its phonetically spelt so if people see it written fine, but lots of people 'hear' it wrong which is a bit annoying. On french exchange the mother called me curtain and when I was little one of the children on our estate asked my mum why she called me custard! My surname is Welsh so I have had a lifetime of spelling out my name, I don't wait for people to ask any more, if I know they are writing it I automatically spell it all out.

DD is Isla and so spelling not an issue but does get pronounced iz-la fairly frequently, normally by people who have English as a second language, doesn't really bother me, we expected it, easy enough to correct.

DD is friends with an Amelia and her mother stiffly says on almost a daily basis, "No it's AH-MA-LAY-AH"

I also worked at a Summer playgroup and there was a gorgeous little girl there (very PFB, always matching hair ribbons and socks) called Genevieve. Don't know how many ways there are of pronouncing it, but I still remember it being drummed into me that she was Jen-A-Vee-Ev.
She had 17 pairs of shoes

oops. Think I can't spell it except phonetically. Please add correct spelling if you know it!

my dd is Lacey - we get alsorts of spellings - laci, lacie, lacy

we do say its not tracey or stacey lots too