[name_m]Just[/name_m] wondering how common it is?
My name is not often pronounced correctly tbh. I’d say when people read my name out loud for the first time it’s 75% incorrect, 25% correct. (my name is Brynn).
It’s gotten a little better as I’ve gotten older and more people have heard of the name (dance moms did wonders) but growing up in the early 2000s it was usually “brine” “Brian” or “Byron”
However I think it’s funny when I get called Brian now, especially when people are expecting a boy to answer. I think my name fits me and I wouldn’t change it.
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My name ends in an audible -e, so American (and for some reason Polish) people turn that into an -ah. [name_m]Can[/name_m]’t blame them though. Also when I was a child some parents of my friends assumed it must be silent and I hated that. Maybe they thought I was too young for a boring name and spiced it up by trying to pronounce it the french way? No idea.
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My name is very common, and has one pronunciation, but a Tunisian teacher mispronounced it as “pizza”
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First name no as it’s literally the most popular name under the sun ([name_f]Olivia[/name_f]) but I don’t think I have ever met someone who has pronounced my last name right first try unless they just happened to be fluent in the [name_m]German[/name_m]/Dutch language.
Mispronounced and misspelled. It’s not a unique name and a really famous person has it. That’s why I’m all for names that seem outlandish or brave because someone will mess up your name regardless.
Constantly! [name_f]My[/name_f] name is very simple, four letters, but very uncommon, and I’d say people get it right on the first try maybe 20% of the time. They often autocorrect to a similar, more common name; switch out a vowel; or just misread it completely. I’m used to it at this point and I do like my name fine, but it’s definitely made me want to give my own kids names that are easy to say and spell 
Haha yes. Everyone. Literally.
(my name is not common whatsoever)
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My first names, sometimes, surprisingly. [name_f]My[/name_f] last name, every time.
My first name, surprisingly, yes, albeit rarely, even though it’s one of the most common names of the 90s and the 00s.
My last name never gets mispronounced, but it always gets misspelled. There is a city near where I live that is pronounced exactly like my surname, but my surname is spelt with an extra letter, so people always miss that out
Normally people can pronounce my name correctly upon seeing it, but sometimes they mishear it as [name_u]Marie[/name_u], which confuses me sometimes as [name_u]Marie[/name_u] is ma-REE and [name_f]Mary[/name_f] is MARE-ee, but I guess it makes sense
Almost always! I have a simple first name, regularly used though not super common and a last name that is not that hard.
People say my first name with an s instead of the z I use, even though I always say it right and I even sign my holiday letters with “With a Z, not an S!”
They say and spell my last name wrong.
And then they address [name_u]Christmas[/name_u] cards to Mr. and Mrs. Husband’s Initial and His Last Name, despite me going my Ms, my first name, and my last name since birth.
Literally all. the. time.
But it’s really not that bad. It’s easy to correct, and people usually get it after one correction. 
No, but they have misheard it as another common similar name. [name_f]My[/name_f] last name is commonly misheard/mispronounced as a similar but more common last name.
Because I’m in the south, [name_f]Megan[/name_f] is constantly pronounced “MAY-gen.” Not sure if that really counts as a mispronunciation or just more of a different enunciation.
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I know you don’t like it but I love your name. I saw it once and I think it’s beautiful.
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So I’m an [name_f]Anna[/name_f] (pronounced anne-uh) and people always pronounce my name Aw-nuh (like [name_f]Anna[/name_f] from Frozen).
All the time. Seer-sie and sheer-sha are common, but I once got sa-royce.
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Oh I love your name! 
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Thank you! And then there are the people who technically get it right by saying “sare-sha”, which I believe is how [name_m]Ronan[/name_m] says it. I’m a “seer-sha”, though.
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