How is your name commonly misspelled (one for my peeps who could never buy a bicycle license plate w/their weird name on it)

Abbi
Abbey
Abby
Abi
Abigail
Fuckface

two Bs in for short or for long + an i and an e (mom's idea) = no plate for a li'l xtian-name Abbott
(mom also had the imaginative idea that my middle name should be pronounced 'lay')

Sorry people with names like "John" and "Chris" and "Jennifer" and "Mohammed."

Rimless

Zac (RONG)
Zak (caveman)
Zack (short for Zackary, I guess? which reminds me of the worst one of all, which is-
Zackary (wtf? Zackary? c'mon.)

I have known two Zack's in my life and it is my preferred way of spelling it

Everyone knows Zak refers not to a human man, but to a tiny waffle-edged polygonal toy used to build flexible and imaginative structures.

ha i had a friend in grade school named zak

apparently there are some ppl in the world who think my name is spelled Jordon http://i43.tinypic.com/zmfmva.jpg

my friend james stewart (not the actor) once wrote off to join some sort of mailing list or whatever and later received post addressed to Janek Stendry.

Though there are a few ways to spell it that are all kosher, depending on country, some people insist on chucking a c in there, even when writing to me email address that obviously has the correct/preferred spelling. wtf?

me=my

my names too familiar and simple to have ever been misspelled; but parents & sister have 7 (or more) legit alternates between 'em: Allan/Allen/Alan/Laurie/Lori/Judy/Judie are the most ubiquitous

Danny
Dannie
Dani
Danni

I'm kate with a k, but catherine with a c, because cate with a c looks dumb. I have to explain this frequently, even though everyone agrees.

tired of explaining this, I used to think about switching to cate or cait, but it's too late for that.

Micheal

My friend's middle child is a Catherine Katie. Up until the child was a year old, friend kept toying with the idea of legally changing it to Katharine but they never went ahead with it.

What drives me nuts: having furnished a zillion examples of my correctly spelled name to someone and getting 'hi Susie' from them in return.

I should start a facebook group for Catherine/Katies.

that was a good meal - I feel cated

Tracey
Traci
Tracie

My name is perpetually mispelt, I've given up caring.

My name doesn't generally get misspelled though have had ppl insist my name is really Nathaniel. Like I don't know what my own name is, or am trying to fool them. I mean, dude.

amanada - because people are stupid or their fingers get carried away when typing
amander - because people are stupid and british

my wife, Gizella, is a long-time sufferer of this. There are never any belt buckles/pins/license plates/signs/jewelry/anything with her name on it. She has gotten:

Grizolda (my personal favorite)
Grizelda
Gisele
Giselle
Gazelle

etc

(to make it work, prior to marrying me her last name was a very common male first name, so that made matters 100x worse)

"work = worse

Okay but when you start at "Gizella", it's not like future misspellings are a long ways down the road.

I have no problem with people misspelling my name 'Jon' as 'John', common enough mistake. But it drives me crazy when I've engaged in e-mail correspondence with someone for months and they still never bother to spell it correctly, despite it being in my both the address itself and my signature.

amander - because people are stupid and british

LOL really? that's pretty amazing. am calling you 'sal' from now on

People really really want to transpose the vowels in my last name, I don't understand why. But no, my first name was never avail on notebooks, mugs, children's sweatshirts or backpacks, or whatever.

For the record, it's G 1 R V @ N.

xp Yes, I've gotten emails from people who had to type my name into the address line, and whom I've worked with for possibly months, who call me Lauren.

Actually, a lot of people call me Lauren.

haha salsa shark me too (amanda)
i've also gotten armando

actual lols at "amander" and "armando"

Amanda is a totally common name! How can you eff that up?

alec, sometimes :(

occasionally people (who don't know me well) try to be overfamiliar and call me al. they get air.

my surname gets it way worse though obv

there was something in the air that night
the stars were bright
Armando

not a misspelling, but I get called "Dave" and "David" a LOT, which is just weird

my surname gets it way worse though obv

Yeah, just curious: why isn't the P capped?

hahahahahaha @ HI DERE being called Dave

this thread is blowing my mind slightly

Matt

it just isn't! anglicisation, i guess, you have to go back a couple of generations on my dad's side to get to actual scots who lived in scotland.

you'd think that with elle macpherson and her uncapped p being the most famous example of my surname, people would be less confused, but apparently not.

xps

hahaha

I think Que that you are suffering from the same syndrome as me, where ppl just go "oh it's a common name, starts with [letter]" and habitually guess/assume/blurt out the wrong one

Well yeah I'm not going to say I've never had to ask myself "SHIT did she say Shelly or Shari? Or Lisa or Leslie? Now she's totally going to know that I really didn't clock meeting her at all and I couldn't care less what her name is."

"jeff"

I get Samantha and Anna a lot too, but that's not really spelling.

My wife had a high school friend named Jennifer who had someone write her name in a yearbook as "Jenniful" due to completely mishearing her name thanks to heavy Memphis accents.

Ian
Iian

"Iian"? Really?

i work at a nursery in the basement of a church, and when they printed me a name-tag it read "sam gvtvy." needless to say there are vowels in my name.

Jason

I think Que that you are suffering from the same syndrome as me, where ppl just go "oh it's a common name, starts with letter" and habitually guess/assume/blurt out the wrong one

Totally. But sometimes I think the confusion comes from the fact that: "Hey, they're both Apostles."

tiarnán og

My first name is never a problem (though I have had at least one person assume the default spelling is "geoff" which seems crazy)

My surname though is super uncommon, to the degree that all 13 or so people in the US with the same name are known relatives. I've heard from a couple people from Finland with the same surname and they've told me it's uncommon enough there that we're probably related also.

xp i was gonna make that but i'm pretty sure he'll just get cross now

I would automatically go for Geoff as a first guess, but that's maybe just a UK thing?

In the US I have yet to meet anyone who spells it Geoff compared with the dozens of Jeffs.

eh, its better than chernobyl which was my nickname for one glorious summer

"Geoff" always felt like a weird spelling to me. Gee-off. Gay-off. Gay'ff. I do not understand how this is to sound like "Jeff".

I've known two Geoffs and hundreds of Jeffs.

I've heard from a couple people from Finland with the same surname and they've told me it's uncommon enough there that we're probably related also.

May I ask what is your surname?

basically geoff = the original way the name was spelled, the way most britishes spell it, jeff = way that looks more like it is pronounced and the way most USAers spell it. Unless i'm very much mistaken.

Wasn't one of The Bangles named Michael Steele? That's a pretty masculine name.

same reason gaol sounds like jail u kno

"Geoff" always felt like a weird spelling to me. Gee-off. Gay-off. Gay'ff. I do not understand how this is to sound like "Jeff".

Original spelling. Norman name.

Zooey.

Sometimes, I've had Russians call me Zoya, but I sort of love that.

wait ur name isnt rosemary?

May I ask what is your surname?

it's k |_| |_| r 3

In the early days of the internet I'd get random emails from Finns who would tell me it was a really uncommon name and therefore we were probably distant relatives.

They also could never tell me what it meant though someone told me that it translates to something like 'hovel' in Estonian, so perhaps my ancestors were at one point dirt poor Estonians.

i know a 'geof' and it unsettles me

wtf?

My husband Clayton is now immortalized as CLAYTO thanks to the wonderful folks in Immigration. 4 years of signing his name and sending everything but stool samples for marriage visas and the like and in my final green card confirmation letter, they cock up his name.

My last name is P3nny, and I've lost count of the amount of times that people call me P3nny when my full name is right in front of them. It's to the point now where I just wait for them to realize, and then say 'it happens all the time, I'm used to it.'

americans named geoff are forced to change the spelling if they want to vote, because we didnt lose that old war.

if i ever became friends with a geoff i would refuse to speak to him unless he was wearing a three cornered hat.

jessie

this is from not only strangers or casual acquaintances, but, like, close relatives, people i've been friends with since high school, coworkers who can clearly see that the nameplate on my desk says JESSE, it doesn't matter. people want there to be an "i" there. i understand it -- there's no word that rhymes with jesse that's spelt like jesse. and i really gave up on correcting people years ago, it just isn't worth the hassle. i've talked to other jesses about it, and they have the same story.

the other thing i get sometimes is "jay," which puzzles me. i guess it's just that they remember what letter my name starts with. or maybe i look like a "jay," i don't know.

i get facebook friends sending things to me as "jessie," and it's like MY NAME IS RIGHT THERE ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN, IN THE MESSAGE HEADER.

i get called tracy all the time, too.

― tehresa, Tuesday, April 6, 2010 5:20 AM

Haha I'm sure I've gotten Theresa before! But mostly Stacey, which is really quite baffling because I wd have thought Tracy was a more common name? Plus it makes me want to stab things (cf Simpsons grrr)

should've said "no, it's got 3 d's"

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, April 6, 2010 3:46 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark

My fave was one where he was auditioning to play piano or something with Bobby Vee, and Vee asked him what his name was.

"Elston Gunn," replied Dylan.

Vee laughs at this obviously wonky pseudonym and says, "Is that "Gunn" with one "n" or two?"

"Three," says Dylan.

― deedeedeextrovert, Wednesday, November 28, 2007 8:44 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark

thanks to this thread I am definitely going to name my first kid llewelyn

ppl misspell my weird jew name "Schmuel" but i can't get too upset about it tbh

My husband always has to stress there's an h in his name. It's Thom. Kinda fucked up to give your kid that (for here) uncommonly spelled first name but there you go.... Mine's pretty easy, Nathalie. People never misspell it. But my last name... It's such a fucking common last name and STILL THEY GET IT FUCKING WRONG. It doesn't even make any sense to spell it Cl@y3s. You pronounce it differently.

I hate when people shorten my name to Nat (it means wet in dutch). I prefer Nath.

people don't spell your name natalie?

wrong thread, but i just want to point out that 99% of the time my last name gets mispronounced as MacGyver, which is totally awesome

xpost Nope. It's unusual to spell is without an h. :-)

Rosanna
Rozzana (eh?)
Rozana
Rosana

It's Rozanna.

Kail, Kaiel, Kyel, Kelly, Klye, Kylie (but that's all in the Czech Republic)

In southern Louisiana most people think my surname is H3bert (pronounced "A-BEAR")

oh shit h3b3rt

eh sorry can someone googleproof that

It's Thom. Kinda fucked up to give your kid that (for here) uncommonly spelled first name but there you go....

the angst turned out to be quite lucrative in the end though right?

jessie

this is from not only strangers or casual acquaintances, but, like, close relatives, people i've been friends with since high school, coworkers who can clearly see that the nameplate on my desk says JESSE, it doesn't matter. people want there to be an "i" there. i understand it -- there's no word that rhymes with jesse that's spelt like jesse. and i really gave up on correcting people years ago, it just isn't worth the hassle. i've talked to other jesses about it, and they have the same story.

― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, April 6, 2010 12:33 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yep. I'm male. Jessie with an "i" is the feminime version of my name.

One thing that I get that makes me fucking lose my mind: "Jeffy" (or Jeffe or Jeffie). This happens when I spell out my name to someone and alter receive mail from them. WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK. Do you really think that my name is Jeffy/e/ie???? You thought I said "jay ee eff eff ee"?? Fuck you.

It has made me self-conscious about maybe having a lisp.

(disregard the "alter" in the first post- not sure what I was going for there)

I have occasionally had mail to ailfa as a result of this thing.

my sky tv account (and hence email address) are in the name eilsa because despite me spelling my name using the phonetic alphabet three separate times, the guy still couldn't get his head round what isn't that uncommon a name.

I always say "V as in Victor" when I'm spelling my surname -- personally I think it's kind of self-important sounding to make a big deal out of it, but then when you don't, you get mail for someone you couldn't even find in a phone book.

lolling at "Jeffe"

The phonetic alphabet is very useful, even though it can bog down a conversation. The other misunderstanding, which is as stupid as Jeffe, is when they repeat to me "jay ay ess ess ee?"

Again, yes, my fucking name is Jasse.

this dude don't seem to like it either

http://www.todotube.es/imagenes/El_jefe.jpg

ps if you've ever worked on the end of a phone you'll hear every name/spelling under the sun- yes, they should be using common sense to go with the most common/obvious, but then the other 50% of this thread is when people do that at the expense of your own particular brand of weird spelling.

Good point, though I've been on the other end a lot, and maybe b/c I'm touchy about my own name being misspelled, I'm pretty careful to repeat it and make sure I've got it right.

my name is spelt counter-intuitively (i.e. it is spelt cecily and pronounced cicely) so I am pretty much resigned to a system of pronouncing my own name 'wrongly' from the start if i think someone is going to have to write it down, to make sure that when I spell it out they won't get confused and write 'stephanie' as someone did one time.

I think someone actually spelled my name "Derryck" once. One of those things that make you go, "Hmmm..."

One thing that I get that makes me fucking lose my mind: "Jeffy" (or Jeffe or Jeffie).

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Ae3d5o-5AP0/SZboHveDM3I/AAAAAAAAAfA/XSi5jQBwsXs/s400/ME+Family+Circus+12.gif

I get Steven...

strictly PH here.