Do you have a name that often gets misspelled?

[Shell Beau]

People always spell my name wrong. How about you?

[fudge stripe cookays]

1. YYYYYYYEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!!!

I love my name, but no one can spell it or pronounce it.

And I used to have Smith for a last name, but then I got married. Now everyone screws up BOTH my names. It does get irritating.

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[Shell Beau]

11. My last name is very hard to pronounce.

It has 7 vowels in it and only 4 consonants. I've never heard anyone pronounce it right the first time.

[fudge stripe cookays]

19. What are you, Welsh?

Oh...no wait...that's all L's and no vowels. :D

[Shell Beau]

27. Ha! Actually the name is French!

[sniffa]

52. are you french(canadian) too?

:bounce:

[progmom]

2. my married name

it gets misspelled, mispronounced, and misunderstood all the time. x(

[WCGreen]

6. Believe it or not, everyone wants to add an E to the end

of my last name.....

I always say Green, like the color and they respond, is there an E on the end of that...

[MissMillie]

3. People always want to add an "s" to the end of my last name

Maybe because there are so many of us...

[meegbear]

4. Yep ...

all the time.

[Ladyhawk]

5. Only because people seem so uneducated in my neck of the woods.

I have a very common name. :shrug: WHY, oh WHY do people spell it wrong???

[BlueJazz]

7. No..just about everybody knows how to spell "Shit-Head"

:)

[Shell Beau]

14. Ha ha!

[Swede]

8. I gave up trying to correct people that misspell my name.

It's easier that way.

[johnnie]

9. Yes

What the heck is up with Jhon? It's really only been recently, but it has happened a few times that people have spelled J-O-H-N as J-H-O-N.

[JitterbugPerfume]

10. no but

my daughter Melanie gets called Melody , Melina ,Melany etc


now let me tell you about my maiden mame Ziglar (sigh)

[LeftyMom]

12. Yes

I think everybody does, unless they have a really easy name like Tom or Jill. LeftyDad's first middle and last are all boring white bread names and people still misspell them, mispronounce them or call him by similar names.

[Dora]

13. all the time

all the time
all the time
all the time

My name is Dreya. DRAY-yuh.
It's not short for anything.
No, it's not short for Andrea. I'm sure of that. No, it's not.

I had a landlord once who was absolutely incapable of saying my name, and I rented there for three years. Most of the time he would talk to me just without saying my name, but every once in a while he had to attempt it: "Diarreah...."

:eyes:

[arwalden]

15. Alan Waldron, Allan Waldon, Alan Walton.

How difficult can it be to spell LORETTA???

[XemaSab]

17. Allen Walten?

Is that you? ;)

[arwalden]

18. Sorry... It's Mary Ellen.

Or John-Boy.

[XemaSab]

16. Oh yeah.... ALL THE TIME

I've got a silent "e" on my first name, and a McScots-Irish last name, and people are always chucking the "e", adding an "a", or BOTH.

I've got Google hits for all 4 possible spellings of my name. :-)

[Left_Winger]

20. Yes, so I never use it

I sign my name: first initial, middle name, last name.

My last name is also quite common with only five letters and it is also commonly misspelled.

When people ask me what the first initial stands for I make up something silly.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

21. Yep

My name is misspelled more than it is spelled correctly. :shrug:

[MuseRider]

22. Arghhhh

yes. Lynne with an E!

My last name the e and i get flipped and no matter how they spell it they say it wrong.

Plus I go by Lynne and that is my middle name so they always call out my first name and it is not my favorite name in the world.

[Trigger Hippie]

23. Oh, yeah

When I lived in the South, they couldn't spell my first name. Now that I live in Boston, they can't spell my last name. :(

[Ariana Celeste]

24. Yes. :(

My first name is Lena.

Most often misspelled as: Lina, Leena.

Most often mispronounced: Lay nuh

Correct pronunciation- Lee nuh

I never understood what was so hard about it. :(

[no name no slogan]

25. Misspelled, mispronounced, murdered

you name it-- it's probably happened to my last name. :+

[edbermac]

26. Yeah, and my first name is Ed...

There are some hardcore morons out there...x(

[Mutley]

28. I have an odd spelling of a fairly common name

and people spell my name the "normal" way most of the time. I've gotten used to it and I don't even correct people anymore.

[GOPisEvil]

29. Yes, my last name.

People want to add an extra "o" or an extra "e". My last name has several spellings, although my way is correct. :evilgrin:

[Shell Beau]

30. Of course!

[friesianrider]

31. Yes, all the time. nt

[elfrangel]

32. OMG, YES!!!!

My name is Leigh (pronounced Lee)

I still get called leah, lee-high, lay-uh etc. UGH!!!!! Even AFTER I tell them how to pronounce it. And the weird looks, gees did I grow horns or something?!

My married name is German, Rickman. For some reason some people, especially telemarketers, still say Richman. WTF? Is it that hard?

[scarlet_owl]

33. Yes! For the last fucking time-my name is Ember, not Amber!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

34. All. The. Damn. Time.

The fact that it's a foreign name doesn't help a bit.

When I went to Spain, one of the most pleasing sensations was telling my name and EVERYBODY GOT IT RIGHT ALL THE TIME. Ahh, memories.

[Saphire]

35. yes, I get called Mrs. Remington, Mrs. Pendleton, Mrs. Remingston..

none of which are my name....

[donheld]

36. All of the time it drives me crazy

It's spelled exactly like it's said, but still they can't get it.

[SmokingJacket]

37. That's why I gave my kids ultra-simple names.

My name is impossible for people to spell. I don't blame them. I blame my mom!!!!

I don't know why people give their kids names like MackKenzee or Jhordania -- it's just going to mean hours spent correcting people and fuming over ugly renditions of their name.

"How d'ya spell that? What? What? Is that Turkish? What?"

[eyesroll]

38. Yep.

My first name is Stacie.

I get e-mails...that are REPLIES to my e-mail, with my name correctly sent in the header...with "Hi, Stacey, thanks for writing."

[u4ic]

39. Yep, my first name

and first and last often get mispronounced.

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

40. Yup.... the "Y" and 2 "E's" messes with people.

My mom had to be different.

[redqueen]

41. Yes.

And it's even pronounced wrong, despite it being a VERY common word with NO alternate pronunciations.

Grr!

[proud patriot]

42. Yes I do

I'm Tricia most people spell it Trisha ...

I just make it easier for everyone and go by
Trish

:headbang:

[bridgit]

43. no, but hubby does, he just has an initial for a first name...

it is surprising to see how many people can't just get past that :shrug:

[ghostsofgiants]

44. My name is even misspelled on my high school diploma

[EstimatedProphet]

45. Oh yeah

I think most Americans can't spell any name more complicated than Smith.
I can't even get people to pronounce my name!

[yewberry]

46. Not misspelled so much as misunderstood.

My husband's name is Camden.

No, not Cameron.
Not Carmen.
Not Calvin.
Please, oh please, not Ken-Don (mail actually addressed to Ken-Don goes straight into the circular file.)

[Gormy Cuss]

47. Yes.

Misspelled frequently (there are two common ways to spell it, and at least 4 variants)
Mistaken for a similar name frequently
Mispronounced in some hilarious ways.

French name. Shell Beau, maybe that's our problem. We should both pick good old Freedom names.

[deadparrot]

48. Yes.

My first name itself isn't uncommon, yet it's not the most popular name in the world, either. There's several spelling variations, so people get it wrong every now and then.

My last name...oh. Very German. Very hard to pronounce, and it's spelled quite differently than it sounds.

[Xipe Totec]

49. Mine is neither common, easily pronunced, nor spelt

That's just how it is.

I take no offense. I just smile and accept the verbal slaughter.

Kind of funny, in a pathetic sot of way, actually.

[China_cat]

50. Our last name constantly

but it's my husband's first name that gives people fits. Lieuwe.

Frisian. Hell, I can spell it but can't pronounce it properly even after 32 years.

[Shredr]

51. Yes!

And mine is so simple, but people always put all kinds of other letters in it.

I've considered changing my last name to "No 'C'"!

[Wetzelbill]

53. It's not that hard but my last name always gets misspelled

Mainly typos I think. Like it took me forever to get the electric company to change Wetzek back to Wetzel. I also get Weztel a lot.

[jmm]

54. My name is Jessica and it often gets misspelled

I think it's one of the easiest names because it only has one standard spelling but people still get it wrong. It's like they expect me to have an uber trendy spelling. I often joke with friends that I'm gonna just go with it and rename my self Gezykah.