Does it bother you when people mispronounce your name?

[Tempest]

I haven't met one person who mispronounced my nickname, and I don't know if people would mispronounce my real name, because no one calls me that.

 

[Stikki]

Not really. I don't really use my real legal name much, but people rarely mispronounce it in the uk anyway. When in America and Canada, they seem to struggle and pronounce it totally different, or say another name entirely with a similar spelling haha. But I know it's one of those names that's really only reasonably well-known in Europe, especially the uk, but still not common enough to be instantly recognisable.

 

[Zane]

My first name is easy, no one gets it wrong, but at this point I'm shocked whenever someone says my last name correctly on the first try.

 

[Meadows]

My name isn't hard to get right, but it used to annoy me when people didn't pronounce my last name correctly. Now it doesn't bother me.

 

[UglyMonsterFace]

It only bothers me when they do it on purpose. Or when they correct ME on how they think it should be pronounced and say it that way instead. Some people are just disrespectful.

 

[DarkDesertFox]

It only bothers me when they call me Taylor instead of Tyler. Even though they're spelled similarly they sound completely different.

 

[MadisonBristol]

My name is pretty common and has a pretty obvious pronunciation, so somebody mispronouncing my name would just confuse me. But people always think there's two D's in my name and I have no idea why.

It is kind of annoying when people don't understand me saying my last name. It's a really common name, it's just my slight Massachusetts accent that makes the R hard for me to say. But once I stopped pronouncing the R altogether, people understood it better for some reason.

Also people don't understand my middle name, Rhodes, which I usually use when ordering coffee or something since my first name is so common. It's very unusual and people think it's Rose. I don't mind it though, and would just say it's Rhodes, like Rhode Island. One time somebody at Starbucks thought it was Vos, which I think is hilarious.

 

[Bowie]

My name is quite hard to pronounce, so I actually just shorten it most of the time to avoid having to repeat myself. It gets kind of awkward, especially if you’re meeting a new group of people and suddenly everyone is talking about how weird your name is.

 

[mogyay]

it's impossible to mispronounce it but it's unusual enough that people not from my own country will mishear it, it doesn't bother me though. my name is gaelic so gaelic speakers pronounce it with an accent on some of the letters, it's so insignificant though so it doesn't bother me at all

my middle and last name are impossible to mispronounce, they're very common

 

[Bloodflowers]

My first name is easy to pronounce for Brits and Europeans but for some reason Americans always pronounce it incorrectly. I really don’t get it.

I took my husband’s last name when we married and it’s very Polish. I don’t mind when people have difficulty pronouncing it but it’s awkward if they are Polish and start speaking to me in Polish because I don’t know that language

 

[GuerreraD]

Well, I don't have a difficult name, but where I live it's pronounced different than in my origin country. And I mean very different, with another entonation and even sounds that the current language doesn't even have, so no use for me on correcting anyone

My surname is also foreign so I always, ALWAYS have to kindly ask everyone to make sure they have written it properly. There have been many times when I had renovated official documents misspelled and had to give them back

But the thing that actually bothers me, more than wrong pronounciation, is when people shorten my name without even asking permission first. Really, random people who just got introduced to me, and they take such liberties? Excuse me?! I don't like my name being nicknamed, thank you very much, and you would know that if you minded your manners and asked first.

 

[heyimsobored]

Oh, yeah, it does. People mispronounce and misspell my last name all the time. After a while, it gets on your nerves

 

[Pupperina]

I think my name was mispronounced once, but my name is pretty common/generic as an American (even though I don’t really encounter many people my age with it). In more recent years, my name has been misspelled occasionally, which surprises me.

 

[That Marshal Fangirl]

My name has been mispronounced so many times that I'm basically used to it by now. Most people call me by a nickname or something, or the closest thing to my name. Mine's one that I don't think anyone else has, so mispronunciations are expected.

 

[Rabirin]

Honestly, i'm not bothered by mispronounciation as such as my name is a fairly common name, (It's Rebecca) so it's rare it gets mispronounced, common name privileges lmao, as per say. I'm british however, and I have noticed varying on the accent, a lot of people here pronounce it with a car sound at the end, lke RebecCAR, instead of a RebecCUH sound, and tbh that bothers me a the tiniest bit, but that's just a preference as to how my name is pronounced regionally, which I can't do much about. It's still pretty much my name, just said differently.

 

[Envy]

My first name is a very common name, thus mispronunciations are extremely rare. My last name, however, is not common and it gets mispronounced a lot of the time people say it. lol. I am not that bothered by it.

 

[maria110]

People mispronounce and misspell both my names all the time. Sigh. It doesn't really bother me.

 

[DJStarstryker]

I have an easy to pronounce name. No one has ever said it wrong. It is far more irritating that my first name + last name combo is the same as a celebrity, though my name is spelled slightly different. People either spell my name like the celebrity's name, or ask if I have any relation to them, or both. Everyone who comments about the celebrity acts as if they are the first person who has noticed it and it is HIGHLY irritating to deal with the jokes. That is partly why I go by a nickname mostly now. I've considered changing my legal name, but there's so much stuff I'd have to change my name on that I'm too lazy for that.

 

[Bethboj]

I have a very easy name to pronounce, but I had a best friend throughout school called Jurate. Her name is pronounced Yur-ah-ta. I don’t know if I felt more for her or the teachers, I don’t think anyone ever got it right on the first try.

 

[HistoryH22]

As a kid I used to get unreasonably salty if someone mispronounced my last name, but nowadays? Meh. There's other things for me to worry about.