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.

I've just changed the spelling of my name. It makes the French happier.

I was going to have to spell either my first name (in French) or my surname (in English) so I decided to make it wholly French and spell the whole thing in English.

I have a Gabriel who is constantly called Gabrielle. I can't work out if they think he is a girl (he does look girly and is called 'she' often) and I dress him/her very butch OR he is a boy with a girl's name.

I have stopped correcting people about either his sex or his name. He is going to grow up very confused!

My son's name is Finlay. In Scotland, they pronounce it 'Fin lee', with the second syllable thrown away. This is how we pronounce it. We live in Australia now, and everyone, without exception, unless I correct them a thousand times and even then.......pronounces it 'Fin LAY' with a huge accent on the LAY. I hate it, my son hates it and now only ever introduces himself as 'Fin'. Phew.

DD2 is Hattie (Hat -tee) I think fairly easy to spell (although have had Hatty written on things) however the only person to have ever mispronounced it was the blimmin vicar at her baptism and he said Hate-tee and forgot to say her middle name (Alice) so DH Nan who was obviously sitting in the congregation was telling everyone her middle name was Alice (after her) and she corrected the vicar after the service

my son is called Ajay, and we always get 'oh is that for andrew john' or something to that effect. No it Ajay thats why we said Ajay when you asked what his name was duh! I've had many mis spellings of it too. i can understand people just using AJ but other than that i would have thought it was pretty simple, but iv had Aejaye and all sorts!!

DD is Eleanor.

we get everything from Elinor to Elnar.

and you;d be amazed at some of the pronunciations.

really? i thought it was quite a traditional name but apparantly if your not named after a brand it causes difficulty

My ds1 is Finn ..I think it a fairly simple name..People sometimes spell in with 1 N or ask if it is short for Finlay or Fintan.
I get called everything but my name...luckily I answer to most things

I have a Cecily- she gets Stephanie a fair bit, when she's not "Seal-y", "Ce-ceel" and "'er- sorry, how do you pronounce that?"

All the fecking time.

Can hardly blame people though,some of them have some tricky names.

DS is Isaac, but he's known as Zack, has been since birth. As in Jack but with a 'Z'. Not Zac, Zak or Zach.
You don't see people misspelling Jack so why is Zack any harder!?
We've had Issac, too. Grrr...
DH's grandma insists on calling him Eye-zik because 'thats his proper name!'... umm.. no its not. If we're going to talk about his 'proper name', its Eye-zack.
But then she calls our neice Kate-lind... instead of Caitlyn!

My dd has a Welsh name, and she gets all kind of variations. It seemed realy straightforward when we picked it- I couldn't see how anyone could get it wrong, but they can!

realy = really, obviously

DS is John. How hard is it to get John right??? We had cards when he was born that said Jhon, Jon, Jonn ??? I thought it was fairly straightforward. I get asked if it is short for Johnathan - No because John is a name in itself.

My name is Natalie, I get all different spellings of my name - Natalia(completely different name) Natile? Natilly, Nataly, and the best one I ever got was Naturly?? Lol

Natalie must also be a name you instantly forget aswell, I had a few cards when DS was born that had Ashleigh?? Sammy and 'John's Mum' on them. Or maybe they instantly forget me....

Ds (Ethan) has been called I-than by loads of people in the seven weeks hes been here....oh and Nathan. Ugh. Not impressed!

My dd4 is Baylee but no 1 except me & her dad spell it correctly its always bailey