My name is [name]Caroline[/name] and often people (mostly adults) call me [name]Carolyn[/name]. I really hate the name [name]Carolyn[/name], so it does annoy me a little bit, but I just correct them and move on. I think this girl in particular overreacted.
I thought my driving instructor was calling me [name]Anna[/name] instead of [name]Hannah[/name], but I didn’t know whether to correct him or not, because I didn’t know if he was just dropping the H due to his accent. It turned out he was (he wrote my name on something), so I was very glad I didn’t correct him.
I also have a rather unusual surname. It’s not that uncommon where I live, but almost no one gets it right the first time. There are two sets of double letters and usually at least one gets left out. It also ends in -ell, which, unsurprisingly sounds like the letter L. Only people pronounce it -ill, for some unfathomable reason. All. The. Time. I feel that my family should get cards printed with the spelling and correct pronunciation. It would save a lot of time and V-E-R-Y S-L-O-W spelling. “No, no, two of those. No, not one, two. Yes, and two Ls. No, E, not A…”
My name gets mispronounced ALLLLLL the time. It’s usually recognizable at least. I don’t mind anymore, but it got annoying during school, since teachers usually needed many, many reminders until they would finally remember.
What annoyed me about it is that my pronunciation is the real, actual, original pronunciation of my spelling… but they would mispronounce it as the trendier, cutesier version.
My name is [name]Amanda[/name], so it’s never been mispronounced…But I wouldn’t be able to stand my children’s names always getting mispronounced. All of my names are names that are recognizable, but not mega popular. Like [name]Rosemary[/name], [name]Lewis[/name], etc. You know. I pride myself on that. 
My name is [name]Tanya[/name] (tah-nyah/tahn-yah) which isn’t usually mispronounced over here in [name]Ireland[/name] but one girl in my class refuses to say my name right (She says tawn-yah) despite the fact that I hate, she knows I hate it and have hated since I first heard anyone say it on TV. The kids in the creche I worked in for work experience called me tan-ee-ah which was adorable coming from them. I’ve sometimes gotten people spelling it with an i which is okay, I just correct them. I’ve gotten one where someone had no clue how to spell my name so I told them.
I never understood why people got so hung up on a name being easy to spell or pronounce. Most names won’t be spelled or pronounced correctly all of the time. For example, a simple name like [name]Leah[/name]. Now, I would naturally assume after hearing it that it would be [name]Leah[/name]. But it could be [name]Lia[/name] or [name]Lea[/name]. Simple names aren’t as simple as people seem to think.
My name’s [name]Laura[/name], and I’ve been called [name]Lara[/name] and [name]Lauren[/name] before. It doesn’t bother me if it’s in the doctor’s surgery or whatever, but I had a teacher who would always call me [name]Lara[/name] even when I corrected him, which is just ignorance. [name]Laura[/name]'s a popular name but both me and the other [name]Laura[/name] in my class got called [name]Lara[/name] so much by this teacher, we even considered going by our surnames or middle names just so we didn’t have to put up with him saying our names wrong. We weren’t the only ones, a girl called [name]Carolyn[/name] got called [name]Caroline[/name], and we had a boy in our class from Nigeria whose name just got butchered completely he spent the whole year going by just T.
My frustration is some teachers at our church that have known my daughter since BIRTH and four years later still can’t say it right. Tbh I didn’t really think that [name]Malia[/name] would be so difficult, since around here it’s so similar to [name]Maria[/name]. But she gets [name]Mal[/name]-ya (like [name]Mal[/name] in [name]Malcolm[/name]) and Ma-LIE-a ALLLLLLLL the time. No wonder she prefers being called [name]Baby[/name]…
Yep! Neither of my children have had their names mispronounced (yet). My common first name has never been mispronounced, either.
My daughter’s name is [name]Adeline[/name] ([name]Add[/name]-uh-line), which I tend to think of as fairly phonetically obvious, but when people read it (at a doctor’s office or so forth), they constantly pronounce it like [name]Adalyn[/name] (last syllable rhyming with “tin”). It doesn’t annoy me, per se, (other than my slight annoyance at the popularity of [name]Adalyn[/name] eclipsing [name]Adeline[/name], which I find much prettier 
) but it does kind of boggle my mind a bit, as I don’t consider it a difficult name to say. If someone persisted in saying it wrong after being corrected, it would probably bug me, though.
I’m [name]Adriana[/name] and I always hear [name]Adrianna[/name], [name]Adrienne[/name] or [name]Adriane[/name]. My middle name, [name]Yael[/name], often gets mispronounced too. When I was younger, I felt very upset, now I get used to it, I think. I repeat my name S_L_O_W and it works
I go by [name]Cassie[/name] and quite often I’ll get people who mistake it for [name]Kathy[/name].
My name [name]Liana[/name] ([name]Lee[/name]-[name]Ah[/name]-Nah) ALWAYS gets misheard. [name]Lina[/name], [name]Alana[/name], [name]Liliana[/name]. Doesn’t help I have a very long, complicated Greek last name to make it more complex.
I’m [name]Kathryn[/name], so whilst most people say my name right, it’s a rare day that they spell it correctly! I would prefer people asked me how my name was spelt as there are so many variants rather than assuming it’s [name]Catherine[/name]/[name]Katherine[/name]. It does annoy me sometimes but I would never express that to someone’s face.
I’ll admit, I get miffed when Ves.per becomes [name]Vespa[/name] (I mean, honestly now! Would I name my baby after a scooter?). But my name is constantly misspelled and mispronounced. It’s not a big deal. [name]Even[/name] DH’s fairly common name is misheard often as [name]Kevin[/name] or spelled [name]Even[/name]
My daughter’s names are mispronounced a lot. [name]Amity[/name] gets ‘[name]Amy[/name]-Tee’ sometimes and [name]Fable[/name] gets ‘Fab-[name]Ull[/name]’ sometimes.
My middle name is [name]James[/name] but it’s the name that I go by most of the time, and people sometimes hear it and think that my name is [name]Jane[/name]. (I guess that makes sense though considering that [name]James[/name] is a boy name).
Nope, “[name]Ann[/name]” is pretty hard to mess up, although I constantly have people email me or write my name on something and add the “e” at the end. When we picked a name for [name]Toby[/name], I specifically wanted one that would be easy to hear, spell, and pronounce, and so far we haven’t had any trouble.
My daughters name is pretty much said how it looks (Senia) but people still pronounce it wrong. She’s been called [name]Seneca[/name], [name]Sienna[/name], [name]Sen[/name]-eye-a…
I’m not a mom, but my own name ([name]Erykah[/name]) is messed up a lot, sadly. When you think about it, it spelt just how it’s sounds. However, I guess the y throws people off. My name has been pronounced: Eureka, Er-EEE-kah (heavy emphasis on the y), [name]Urek[/name], so on and so forth. It sucks when at teacher messes up your name though. The 6th grade teacher that called me Eureka in front of my class inspired the name that my friends would tease me with for an eternity - Urethra.
Shockingly, [name]Antoine[/name] is nearly always pronounced correctly (save a recent person who insisted on calling him [name]Angela[/name]). I mean by all kinds of people from all walks of life. I was surprised how well-known the name is. Now, writing it down is a different matter…
My daughter is [name]Amelie[/name], but gets [name]Amelia[/name] quite a lot. [name]Even[/name] after I correct certain people, they continue to call her by the wrong name. Then they wonder why she ignores them when they talk to her :rolleyes: Call the girl by the right name and she’ll talk to you!