https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:45:31 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-last-name-easy-to-pronounce/page/3#post-571679 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 01:13:33 +0000 alayaya 571679@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My maiden name was really weird and I've only met 2 people in my life who got it right first try (if they were reading it). My married name is totally normal though, so I guess I traded up? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-last-name-easy-to-pronounce/page/3#post-571662 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:59:07 +0000 dojo 571662@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My maiden last name was hyphenated and a little out of the ordinary but my last name now is pretty common/easy so I can't imagine people pronouncing it wrong. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-last-name-easy-to-pronounce/page/3#post-571607 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 22:25:14 +0000 JamieLee 571607@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My maiden name was really easy, a large Texas city, but we still would get the occasional mispronunciation due to a street in NYC. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-last-name-easy-to-pronounce/page/3#post-571600 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 22:22:35 +0000 JamieLee 571600@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If someone is reading it, super easy, but people mishear it all the time So I always spell it out, especially on the phone. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-last-name-easy-to-pronounce/page/3#post-571599 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 22:22:33 +0000 kjpugs 571599@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs Hedgehog: LOL! I can't wait to tell her she's not the First Vicki Fricke! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-last-name-easy-to-pronounce/page/3#post-571589 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 22:17:21 +0000 Mrs Hedgehog 571589@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@KJfromNJ: that is crazy! That is my aunts name. She married into it too. Lol. She does still go by Vicki though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-last-name-easy-to-pronounce/page/3#post-571563 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 21:38:41 +0000 kjpugs 571563@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs Hedgehog: my friend is getting married to a Fricke in May! And her name is Victoria... we call her Vicky Fricke but luckily she only goes by Victoria or Vic! :-) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-last-name-easy-to-pronounce/page/2#post-571559 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 21:35:19 +0000 kjpugs 571559@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This is so interesting! Both of mine are simple but often messed up. My maiden was a man's name but was often misspelled/pluralized (ex: Steven /Stephen/Stephens) and my married name is only 4 letters and VERY simply pronounced, but everyone tries to make it sound more ethnic than it is. I have to always say a simple "Hat, like Cat" phrase every time I give my name. But I like it more because 4 letters is easier! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-last-name-easy-to-pronounce/page/2#post-571464 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:25:13 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 571464@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Reese: I pronounced it the same way until DH finally correctedvme when we started dating. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-last-name-easy-to-pronounce/page/2#post-570816 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 09:23:38 +0000 MrsSCB 570816@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Both mine and DH's are easy to pronounce. I'm very happy about that because I hyphenated and both are kind of long (three syllables each). If they had been hard to pronounce too, it would have been too much! Haha </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-last-name-easy-to-pronounce/page/2#post-570721 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 02:12:31 +0000 tlcbaby 570721@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No way! Mine is Italian and nobody gets it right. That is why the baby will have my husband's name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-last-name-easy-to-pronounce/page/2#post-570564 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 21:34:17 +0000 chopsuey 570564@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep it's easy but loooooong </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-last-name-easy-to-pronounce/page/2#post-570547 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 21:20:53 +0000 jedeve 570547@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My last name is Simmons but spelled with E's instead of an I and an O. So guess how people pronounce it. :-) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-last-name-easy-to-pronounce/page/2#post-570525 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 21:06:34 +0000 bunnylove08 570525@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>People butcher it all the time. It's phonetic but I guess all the letters throw them off </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-last-name-easy-to-pronounce/page/2#post-570098 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 13:21:33 +0000 lolabee 570098@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My maiden name was easy peasey. My married seems straight forward to me but I've heard three different pronunciations. Oddly enough the men and women in the family pronounce it differently. Go figure! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-last-name-easy-to-pronounce/page/2#post-570068 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 12:38:16 +0000 Reese 570068@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@BabyBoecksMom: I always said "Bo-eck" in my head! </p> <p>My maiden name - while short, it was always pronounced wrong. I love my married name because it is easy to pronounce but different. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-last-name-easy-to-pronounce/page/2#post-570030 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 11:45:53 +0000 mrsmacandcheese 570030@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine is! My maiden name was awful -- part of why I decided to take Mr. D's name was so that people would stop mangling mine. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-last-name-easy-to-pronounce/page/2#post-569980 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 11:09:19 +0000 singingbee 569980@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Maiden name---no way!!!! Married name---mostly. I never thought I'd still have to spell it out, but most of the time I still do!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-last-name-easy-to-pronounce/page/2#post-569978 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 11:06:26 +0000 Mrs. J 569978@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My maiden name was an easy to pronounce but not easy to spell German name. Now my last name is French/Swiss, and no one can pronounce it/spell it, even when I tell them it sounds like Chevrolet. All my students can say it, but none of the adults on my school can! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-last-name-easy-to-pronounce/page/2#post-569837 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 07:56:02 +0000 MediaNaranja 569837@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Very easy. It is a man's first name, and not totally uncommon, but not super common either. DH's last name is spanish, but short and easy to pronounce. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-last-name-easy-to-pronounce/page/2#post-569829 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 07:26:49 +0000 tequiero21 569829@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Both my maiden and married names are easy to pronounce! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-last-name-easy-to-pronounce/page/2#post-569769 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:14:25 +0000 PrincessBaby 569769@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine is super easy...And everyone not only has an easy time saying it, they also always say it like the slang word..."Holler!!!!" Said like "Holla!!!" I think it's funny:)</p> <p>Plus my first name starts with a J and my nickname is JHo, which I find pretty amusing and actually love:). I was pumped to get my husband's last name! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-last-name-easy-to-pronounce/page/2#post-569768 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:08:52 +0000 Mrs Hedgehog 569768@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It should be but somehow people just don't get it. Shef. Pronounced like it is spelled, just like Chef. But I get Self, Shelf, Sheef, Jeff... Ugh... I will never get it.</p> <p>My maiden name I could see people pronouncing it wrong. It can be weird. But some of the mispronunciations were strange. Fricke: Frik-E. I expected Frick. Not Frike, Friker, Frickle, Flicker, Freak, Freaky.... oh well. My sisters get to enjoy that problem now! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-last-name-easy-to-pronounce/page/2#post-569685 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:11:16 +0000 wheres_c 569685@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine is easy. (Opposite of old), but SO's is a difficult spanish name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-last-name-easy-to-pronounce/page/2#post-569600 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 21:24:19 +0000 Boogs 569600@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>99% of the time people get it wrong. I think if some letters were swapped out it would be more intuitive. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-last-name-easy-to-pronounce/page/2#post-569539 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:35:10 +0000 doodlepoodle 569539@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My maiden name was super easy but people still got it wrong. It was Barnhill but people ALWAYS said Barnhart. I was so mad through school because there was a girl w/Barnhart for her last name and she was a total b-word and we had similar features so people thought we were related. Now my married name is Crofoot (pronounced crow-foot) so people either think I said Crawford or tell me I misspelled my name if they see it written out. Totally annoying haha. </p> <p>See why I didn't hyphenate my last name? ;-) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-last-name-easy-to-pronounce/page/2#post-569443 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:11:32 +0000 Mrs. Oatmeal 569443@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My maiden name SHOULD have been super easy to pronounce. 5 letters, said exactly as it was spelled. But it was never pronounced right.<br /> My married name is super simple, so I never have problems. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-last-name-easy-to-pronounce/page/2#post-569413 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:48:53 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 569413@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Running Elley: really? That <b>never</b> happens! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-last-name-easy-to-pronounce/page/2#post-569398 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:37:34 +0000 Sweet T 569398@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine is really easy. It's pronounced just like it's spelled but people still have a really hard time with it. My maiden name is super easy too. I rarely had people mispronounce it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-last-name-easy-to-pronounce/page/2#post-569369 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:13:22 +0000 Running Elley 569369@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@BabyBoecksMom: Woohoo I was pronouncing it right in my head :)<br /> @TurtleDoves: I thought the last part of your maiden name was pronounced ree! Interesting!</p> <p>Both my maiden and married names are veryyyy easy! </p>