Does Anyone have their names constantly mispronounced?? Sia

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  • TimeToDoMe87
    TimeToDoMe87 Posts: 62
    my name is Mariana (Madi-ana) Roll the R. I get the whiney version of Mary-Anna, if you can't pronounce it don't say it .. or ask me. I prefer the r rolled or if you can't roll the r then day Mahr-yana
  • ValFerg67
    ValFerg67 Posts: 27 Member
    I'm Valerie but people almost always call me Val.........I don't really like it and would much prefer Valerie
  • ingeh
    ingeh Posts: 513 Member
    Mine is Inge pronounced Ing-Ga. My nana was polish and it was her name. Most people call me Ing if they now me well enough. This is why im giving my kids names that are easy to tell how they are pronounced! Leo is hard to get wrong lol apart from when we got a card saying "Leon Ryan" instead of "Leo Riley"
  • RhondaRowsell
    RhondaRowsell Posts: 33 Member
    My last name is Rowsell, pronounced like arousal without the first a. We often get Roswell, like the town in New Mexico where the aliens supposedly are.
  • Luandanielle1979
    Luandanielle1979 Posts: 747 Member
    Me Im Luan like Luanne I get called Lewan....loo-un. Even loon haha. Although I
  • RoanneRed
    RoanneRed Posts: 429 Member
    Almost no-one's familiar with Roanne (unless they're know it's a town in France, which my parents didn't) so I gave up a long time ago - although getting called Miranda once when I answered an incoming call was a bit much!
  • Umpire57
    Umpire57 Posts: 389 Member
    Being a sports official, I won't get into all the names I have been called! :-)
  • Luandanielle1979
    Luandanielle1979 Posts: 747 Member
    Me Im Luan like Luanne I get called Lewan....loo-un. Even loon haha. Although I

    It went before I finished. I quite like loon it fits well lol x
  • AudgePaudge
    AudgePaudge Posts: 537 Member
    My name is Audrey. It sounds exactly how it's spelled but for some reason I always get called Audra or Aubrey :)
  • ScarletFyre
    ScarletFyre Posts: 754 Member
    My name is Suzi (Suzie - but without the "e") - I work in a call center and actually VERBALLY SAY my name over the phone: i get Cindy, Judy, Dizzy (not even kidding), and once got Phil :noway:
  • ni3121
    ni3121 Posts: 9
    My name is Naimah and people have said my name in sooo many different ways. it's pronounced **Ni-E-Mah**
  • BrwnGirlSlimmn
    BrwnGirlSlimmn Posts: 24 Member
    Sarayah. suh-ray-yah. "ray" like ray of sunshine. that's actually my twitter name "suhRAYyuh". follow me, lol :)
  • bhalter
    bhalter Posts: 582 Member
    My name is Barbara, simple enough, but you wouldn't believe how many people think I say "Debora."
  • kekl
    kekl Posts: 382 Member
    Oh yes lol. My last name is pronounced exactly how it is spelled and there are a million variations people put in there.
  • seehawkmomma
    seehawkmomma Posts: 815
    My name is Shaanda....

    Most people either say HUH....or pronounce it like Shawnna, Shandra, Shannon, Shanquia, etc etc etc

    I also get a lot of "Shaanda? Isnt that a black persons name" which btw I find really to be so ignorant....mostly because i've never even met another Shaanda so i have no idea what color of skin you have to be to have that name.
  • fteale
    fteale Posts: 5,310 Member
    I get mine constantly mis-spelled.
  • elfie9863
    elfie9863 Posts: 337
    My last name is Kahler (pronounced Kay-ler) and it's often pronounced Call-er.

    HAHAHA...my last name is KOHLER...and people pronounce it KALLER...KEELER...once COLLINS...yep...then when I spell and pronounce it for them I always get..OH LIKE THE TOILET/PLUMBING COMPANY!...argh.
  • MaryAnne1
    MaryAnne1 Posts: 183 Member
    Yes...every possible variation of Mary-Anne - Mary, Anne, Marie-Anne and even my brother got it wrong and called me Anne-Marie!! Aargh!!
  • rrcaudill
    rrcaudill Posts: 87
    My maiden name was so easy and no one ever has trouble with my first name, but once I got married, I saw what my husband has always had to go through. Our last name is Caudill (pronounced Caw-like a crow sound dill-like the pickle). Most people say Caudle or Cuddle. Lol
  • megz4987
    megz4987 Posts: 1,008 Member
    My name is meaghan and I've been called every possible pronunciation. Mee-gan, meeg-han, mee-a-gan. It's just like Megan, no confusing added syllables
  • 2Bgoddess
    2Bgoddess Posts: 1,096 Member
    My name is Carolyn. Rhymes with Marilyn, as in, Monroe. Pronounced CAR-oh-lin. People always Cal me CAR-oh-line. Caroline. I just don't respond.
  • danniellevigue
    danniellevigue Posts: 36
    my last name is ALWAYS mispronounced and my first name is ALWAYS misspelled :/




    wow. my name is spelled the same way!!! :)
  • LuckyLeprechaun
    LuckyLeprechaun Posts: 6,296 Member
    Being a sports official, I won't get into all the names I have been called! :-)

    umpire's got rabbit ears! LOL
  • xSophia19
    xSophia19 Posts: 1,536 Member
    my name is Sophia, nobody i know calls me by this name!! its always Sophie, Soph, Sosh, Slosh (long story about that name!), Sof.. Even my own mother calls me Sophie!!! im like arghhh!! on my birth certificate it says Sophia NOT Sophie!!!!!
  • nerdyandilikeit
    nerdyandilikeit Posts: 2,185 Member
    Mine is Mallory... pretty simple...
    I get Valerie, Mary, Melly and TWICE I've gotten MALARIA? For real?

    I'm DYING! Malaria?! I'm calling you that forever now. AHAHAHAHA!
  • MercenaryNoetic26
    MercenaryNoetic26 Posts: 2,747 Member
    My name is spelled "Mayra" but pronounced "Myra"

    First day of school as a kid they'd always say, "MAY-ra"? LOL I HATED that!
  • ronda_gettinghealthy
    ronda_gettinghealthy Posts: 777 Member
    not much you can do about your last name and I think it is awesome that we have so many different ethnic names.....but this is why I cringe when I see people who have named their child something spelled oddly and nearly unprounouncable by the general public....please be considerate of your child and of their school teachers and DONT name them something difficult..

    signed---- the mother who named her daughter Caitie (KATY) and who should have known better because her mom spelled Ronda without an H and she spends her life saying no H----

    *** I learned my lesson and my daughter is still having to correct people***
  • neneyj
    neneyj Posts: 1
    Yep, but I blame my parents for spelling my name wrong. It's genene (should be Janine). I get jean, jenny, genevieve, je-ne-ne. je-nen,

    Parents!! Don't do it!! Don't give your kids silly names!! - ps, I never can find my name on those personalised things which is a big thing when you are 7 and want a hairband just like your friends...
  • sailorsiren13
    sailorsiren13 Posts: 460
    My name is constantly mispronounced or misspelled as is my middle name as is my daughter and son's their names are popular but not spelled in the popular way. I mean how hard is it to ask really i have lived all over the country and overseas and to respect other cultures that's what i do!!
  • MamaEdmund
    MamaEdmund Posts: 70 Member
    You should have my name - Regina. I get called - get this - rhymes with vagina - all the time!

    It's the Canadian pronunciation.......seriously the capital of Saskatchewan--Regina. Rhymes with and everything. The first time I heard a Canadian say it (because I had only read the city's name) I laughed because I thought he was kidding. Then I moved here and found out everyone says it that way. And now I confuse myself when I go back to the States and see our family friend Rejina (pronounced like yours but spelled differently). And in my head the whole time I'm like "Is it rej-EYE-nah or re-GENE-ah? Crap I just won't say her name." LOL
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