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Mine is also simple, and I ALWAYS get different versions of it. Like with an "e" or "a" added to the end for no reason.

Yes; even though my name is not kreatyvly spelled and is (IMO) straight forward; the vast majority of the time it is mispronounced to the male version of the name. It’s so frustrating; even after I correct people they will continue to mispronounce it.

When picking names for LO, I wanted a name that was really, really straight forward.

Kind of. My name is Molly and I get called Holly a lot (I guess when they have trouble hearing me or someone else). But if they see it on paper, it's never a problem.

Surprisingly, it does. My name is Katilyn. They typical spelling is KatITlyn. So i've gotten called "Katie-lyn" quite a few times.
I go by "Kati", so people pronounce that "Kat-eye". Which drives me nuts lol

YES - my last name (married last name) is impossible to pronounce without some instruction. sigh....

My name doesn't get butchered per se, but I am particular about how I like it pronounced. My first name is Megan.

I prefer (and the proper way) is Meg-anne, just like it is spelled (oh hey imagine that). For some reason, people like to say May-gun, which annoys the hell out of me. Why would you say that!! Is it spelled like that????

Absolutely. It is four letters and one syllable, but people pronounce it wrong regularly and almost always spell it wrong. I don't really care, though. Unless it's someone I will interact with a lot, I rarely correct them (like if the nurse pronounces it wrong at the doctor's office I just let it go).

My name is very straight forward, but I still have people say the wrong name some times-- most of the time from people who are hispanic or African American, so I think they might use the other name for a girl more often, where I've mostly heard the wrong name for a boy. My maiden name got mispronounced all the time-- there are two common ways to say it, and even though it's quite common and I've never met someone who uses the hard E sound in it, there is a university with the name that pronounces is that way. My new last name is an actual work and impossible to mispronounce when you see it.

Yep. First and last name are always pronounced incorrectly, even though they're basically phoenetic. But my first name is 3 syllables and my last name is 4, must just be too many syllables for people's brains to deal with.

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@LindsayInNYC: That's basically what I meant, heh. It's just the May-gun that drives me bonkers!

I have a super simple last name (Long) but we always have to spell it because people tend to hear it as "Wong". It was especially bad when DH lived in San Francisco, people would always be confused by this 6 foot 1, red headed "Wong".

Yup. Korea. First name. Long Polish last name. 'Nuff said. Ironically. Ppl have a harder time with last name than first name.

My last name. It's soooo short and only a few letters, but no one can seem to hear it correctly! Even when I spell it out, people mishear that too and add all kinds of weird letters.

My first name is one letter from a males first name, so every first day of school, or first time someone sees my name I am the male version of the name, only in university 2nd year spanish (elective, lol) class did the prof get it right the first day, first time in my life!

My maiden name was easy, and I thought married name was too, but it is so funny when people don't know it and try to say it, they say the "i" like and "l" and it's funny.

yep, my last name. it's four letters and one syllable. pretty straightforward, but people mispronounce it half the time, and hesitate in pronouncing the other half of the time. really?? at least when it's mispronounced, it's always the same mispronunciation.

Yes. My first name is Andrea and there are several ways to pronounce it so whenever I meet someone I have to direct them, and they usually forget. But I'm used to it, so no biggie.

I changed my last name when I got married--it's a simple, short name, but not very common, so I always have to spell it out. People often spell it wrong even when I do that. And, it always gets pronounced wrong.

My maiden name and my first name are two of the most common American names in existence. When people can read it, they don't have trouble pronouncing it, unless Spanish is their first language, and then they have trouble pronouncing the A sound. But my married last name...sigh. Just sigh. It looks easy enough in English, except its not an English name, so it's pronounced totally different than it looks on paper.

Kind of like a Vietnamese student I had once whose first name was "Duong". Looks like "Doo-ong" in English, right? Except in Vietnamese, it's close to the sound of "yoong". There's no way an English speaker will get that right. And that's how it is with my new last name. I work in a school. so my name is printed all over the place, so I just answer to everything, how it looks like its pronounced, how it's actually pronounced, and my maiden name, all three.

Surprisingly, yes. lol. My name is simple and common and somehow people manage to misspell and mispronounce it constantly.