My mom loves new granddaughter dearly, but has a lot of trouble remembering her name: [name]Elsa[/name] [name]Beatrice[/name]
Her first name has been changed to [name]Lisa[/name], [name]Liza[/name], [name]Ellie[/name] and [name]Ilsa[/name]. [name]Beatrice[/name] has come out as [name]Berenice[/name] or just pronounced incorrectly, like bee-AY-tris.
I thought [name]Elsa[/name] was fairly simple name. I am sure mom thinks it’s a little old-fashioned, but I didn’t expect her to struggle so much to remember it.
Anyone else experience this? BTW, [name]Elsa[/name] is now 4 months old.
P.S. This is in no way my mom being passive-aggressive or refusing to learn a name that she doesn’t like. She always corrects herself right afterwards, “Oh hello little [name]Lisa[/name]… [name]AH[/name], I MEAN [name]ELSA[/name]!” So this may bother her more than it does me…and I’m really not all that bothered by it. [name]Just[/name] curious if anyone else has a similar experience.
My father-in-law always called my daughter [name]Laurie[/name] instead of [name]Rory[/name] and would explain, “Someone works for me whose name is [name]Laurie[/name].” Might just be your mom’s memory slipping a little or just having too many things on her mind! While [name]Elsa[/name] isn’t a difficult name, it’s one that hasn’t been used for a long time, especially compared with long-popular names like [name]Lisa[/name]. And once your daughter starts talking, I’ll bet she sets Grandma straight on her name – and that Grandma will be a lot more careful to get it right then!
My daughter’s name is [name]Emily[/name], which I thought no one could mess up, but my grandfather has called her “Emerly” since the day she was born. She just had her 3rd birthday, and it was still to “Emerly” on the card. He also calls my niece [name]Giana[/name], “Jeroma.” Which makes me laugh endlessly, but it is a more obscure name from the rest in our family.
themrs. Your comment made me laugh. Emerly and Jeroma! Like you, I mostly find the situation funny. (Perhaps mildly disturbing when I think about mom’s memory slipping.) I never know what name she’ll call her next! Maybe I’ll get a great name idea for child number 2.
Oh I’ve been there. The good news is it will pass! It might take another couple of months but she will get there!
I thought my daughter had a pretty straight forward name too, but you wouldn’t believe how many people mispronounce it! It just goes to prove that you can’t safeguard against all errors!
P.S. Your daughter’s name is lovely!
My daughter [name]Leonie[/name] has been [name]Fiona[/name] quite a bit! And my grandfather one time asked if her name was [name]LaWanda[/name] or LaJuanna…I simply said, “[name]LaWanda[/name].” lol
I just tell anyone who gets confused to just call her [name]Lee[/name]…can’t mess that one up, right?
For the first year or so of my son [name]Theo[/name]'s life my sister-in-law (who is 20+ years older than me, so kind of like a mother-in-law type figure) called him [name]Leo[/name]. Really got on my nerves. I love the name [name]Leo[/name], it’s just not my son’s name! 4 letters - how hard can it be?! It’s not made up or kreatively spelled… Oh well!
When I was little, my Dad always got my name wrong. My sister was [name]Diane[/name], and he had no problems with her name, but to him I was always [name]Di[/name]–[name]Clare[/name]! I guess my situation wasn’t so bad because he’d remember it when he was halfway through my sister’s name. :> It really ticked me off when I was younger, but now that I’m old enough to have my own memory slips I understand. :>
My son [name]Ethan[/name] got called [name]Ian[/name] and [name]Nathan[/name], and occasionally [name]Steven[/name], a lot when he was little - not by family, but others. (he is 17). Now that [name]Ethan[/name] is such a popular name, people tend to get it right. My name’s [name]Shannon[/name], and I get [name]Sharon[/name] and [name]Janet[/name] a lot.
Haha! Y’all are making me laugh! I have no idea how people confused some of those names with completely different names?! I have a niece named [name]Jillian[/name] or [name]Jilli[/name] as a nickname. I have heard many people call her [name]Julie[/name] or [name]Julian[/name]. So strange.
My name is pronounced like saying the letters R-E-L, and I do get the [name]Air[/name]-ee-el pronunciation a lot, which is to be expected… but I have had people call me [name]April[/name], which I just don’t understand at all!
I’m nearly 30 and my [name]Nan[/name] has always got everyones names mixed up! We get called siblings, parents, cousins even a dogs name who died 40 years ago. My name is [name]Joanne[/name] and I get called [name]Helen[/name], [name]Valerie[/name], [name]Janet[/name], [name]Emma[/name] and even [name]Toby[/name] the dog! My mum has started doing it too now so I guess I embrace it and look forward to doing it myself in the future!
I am one of nine siblings with all C names and all boys. There was [name]Corbin[/name], [name]Caleb[/name], [name]Cash[/name], [name]Clifford[/name], [name]Collin[/name], [name]Carson[/name], [name]Cole[/name], [name]Clayton[/name], and me, [name]Christopher[/name]. My nanny was calling me my uncles names, [name]Calvin[/name] and [name]Cruz[/name] and even my own son, [name]Quintin[/name], that I had when I was 18. There are five '[name]Michael[/name]'s in my family and everyone is always getting confussed. My partner’s name is [name]Parker[/name], and even he gets called [name]Paul[/name] or [name]Patrick[/name]. It’s crazy! My other boys, [name]Daniel[/name] and [name]Ryan[/name] are caled [name]Nathaniel[/name] and Cyruss for some reason. I am now 38. [name]Quintin[/name] is worried if he names his daughter [name]Tuesday[/name] like him and his wife want that she’ll get called [name]Massey[/name], [name]Brittany[/name] and even [name]Tiffany[/name]. My family is nuts and both my parents had more than four siblings not inculding them! Everyone in my family is always getting called something other than thier name. It’s gotten to where my brothers and I will just ask What when one of our names get called because we never know which (Which ever C name they say) they want because they mix up all our names! Ugh!
I guess I should be happy then! I knew when we picked [name]Anneliese[/name] that there would be problems, but it hasn’t been to bad. My dad and my sister in law still can’t spell it, but other than that, most of the family got it quickly and easily.
We decided to tell my grandparents, who were pushing 90 at the time, that her name was just [name]Anna[/name], and two funny/sweet things came of that. My Granny almost immediately started calling her [name]Annie[/name], and nothing could get her to remember that it wasn’t [name]Annie[/name] (which is a name I hate). But as her mind slipped more and more, I was just happy that she still wrote [name]Annie[/name] in her prayer journal several times a week. Towards the end or her life, as she mixed up most of us (and usually referred to most of the kids as “the baby”), she really had trouble keeping track of my brunette [name]Anneliese[/name] and my cousin’s blonde [name]Lucy[/name], who are only a few weeks apart in age (the girls, each on their own, started always showing her their hair to try to get her to see which one was which). She finally compromised and called both girls [name]Anna[/name]-[name]Lucy[/name], no matter which one was in front of her!
The other funny/sweet thing was my grandpa. He couldn’t understand where we came up with the name [name]Anna[/name]. Kept insisting he’d never heard of such a thing and didn’t like it, even after I showed him [name]Anna[/name] in his Bible. He asked me what her middle name was, and so I told him that her full name was really [name]Anneliese[/name]. He thought that was lovely, and asked why we didn’t just call her by the full thing instead of shortening it to that weird [name]Anna[/name]. So my attempts to help the old man didn’t work at all! He really took to that baby, even though he was so old and frail by the time she was born, loved to hold her and give her things (he always wrote Anno though, because he couldn’t figure the rest out. No idea why an ‘o’). He passed on when she was just a few months old.
[name]One[/name] of my daughters is about to be 22, and her paternal grandparents still mispronounce her name. They have moved on to also mispronouncing HER daughter’s name! Another of my daughters, [name]Susanna[/name], is 7, and she is already tired of frequently being called [name]Savannah[/name]. At least people get kind of close. When I was growing up, my poor little grandmother always greeted me with, “Now, who do we have here?” Awww…
I’ve been called Niecey on occasion - which is the nickname that my aunt goes by - by my grandmother. She’s usually pretty good about remembering my name but sometimes she slips up.
