Misspelled names

[aleadfeather.livejournal.com]

Do you have a name/child's name that is frequently misspelled?

My name is Stacey and usually when someone tries to spell my name I get Stacy or the occasional Stacie. I'm sure there are even people with the name that spell it Stacee or Stasee or some other variations...

I like my name spelled the way it is. Stacy seems incomplete to me. It just gets really annoying sometimes having it constantly misspelled.

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[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

My name is Karlie, and I get Carly/Carley/Carli/Carlee/Carleigh and other variations all the time!

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

I love your name and hate all other spellings!

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

You named/are naming your daughter Norah? Awesome!

[sloane-hd.livejournal.com]

Norah Madeline is brilliant!!

[aleadfeather.livejournal.com]

My sister's name is Lisa and I don't think she gets variations that often.

She, however, brought misspellings upon herself by changing her name to Liisa, after our Finnish great-grandmother. Our mom was going to spell her name like that when she was born but decided not to because she didn't want everyone spelling it wrong.

[trivher.livejournal.com]

My name is Tabetha. Not Tabatha. Not Tabitha.

My parents went with that spelling in case I disliked it I could go by Beth. Which I never did.

[in-the-starlite.livejournal.com]

I'm Kiersten. Use your imagination...

Most recently I've gotten:
Kierstan
Kierston
Kierstin
Kirstin
Kerstin
Kirstine

Seriously. It's endless. Let's not even start with the pronunciations.

[aballard23.livejournal.com]

My sister is Kearstyn, lol.

[anapology.livejournal.com]

oh dear, that's a ridiculously odd spelling!

[aislincalum.livejournal.com]

My name is Hilary. I get Hillary, Hilarie, Hillaree, Hilariye, Hailey, Harley, Heather, even HENRY. Ugh. I understand that Hilary is the feminine spelling, but most people don't know the difference, which I've accepted. But the random letters?! I don't get it.

[catchstars.livejournal.com]

My name is Erin. A lot of people spell it "Aaron", so I've found myself saying "Let me spell that for you..." if someone needs to write it down, because when I used to say, "It's Erin with an 'E'" they would spell it Aaren, Aeron, Aeren, Earen, or Aren.

Some people also mishear it as Irene, or Ern. Someone once asked me if it was short for Ernestine.

[mizsfrankie.livejournal.com]

Im Francesca, I usually get Franchesca or Franchessca or Franchesska.
Thats why everyone just calls me Frankie =)

[aballard23.livejournal.com]

My name is Alicia, and I get Alesha, Alisha, Alysha.. Aleesha.. Gosh. It just.. goes on and on and on. :(

[museofmyself.livejournal.com]

My name is Tara. Not Tarrah, Tera, Terra, or Taira (seriously!).

My daughter's name is Lily. Like the flower. I stupidly thought that such a simple sounding name would be just as simple for people to spell. Apparently not. I also didn't think that her name would become as wildly popular as it has. I didn't know anyone named Lily when my daughter was born almost 12 years ago.

Anyway, she gets Lilly, Lillie, Lilli, Lili. *sigh* At least it gets pronounced correctly. That's always a plus. ;)

[dustkitty.livejournal.com]

My husband seems to think Terra is the default spelling of Tara, because the only one he knows spells it that way. Same argument with Jocelyn (Josslynne), Cheryl (Sheryl), and a few others I can't recall. This area obviously has the naming IQ of a jar of mayonnaise. It's making name-spelling for our baby difficult, to say the least.

[museofmyself.livejournal.com]

the naming IQ of a jar of mayonnaise. LOL! Good luck finding a name you and your husband can both agree on! :)

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

I like your name a lot =)

[museofmyself.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I've grown to like it myself, actually. :)

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

My name is Alison, and people always spell it with two L's. If I'm lucky, they ask me before they spell it. I've had people spell my name wrong even when they've been looking at it for two hours.

It doesn't really annoy me that much. I prefer my spelling of the name, but I know that 'Allison' is more popular, so I don't get really mad or anything if people spell it wrong. I'd rather have it spelt right, though, obviously. :P

[scribblescrawl.livejournal.com]

Ha, I'm Allison with two Ls and I always get "Alison." My best friend in high school was an Alison and people were constantly confused.

Misspellings don't bother me either. What DOES bother me is that at work I now get "Casey," which is my new last name. People see it in my email address and plug it in for the first name--even though I always sign my emails with my full name. People I've known for two years before I got married have done this!

[decembermalice.livejournal.com]

Alison is the best spelling, in my opinion. Although I loved the spelling Alyson when I was younger.

[jenniferdunn.livejournal.com]

My name is Jennifer, but I typically go by Jen or Jenny. I often get referred to as Jenn or Jenni/Jennie, even by people I know! LOL It's weird.

Name Misspellings

[crossingthesea.livejournal.com]

I'm Maya (My-uh). You can maul that all sorts of ways both in spelling and pronunciation. Same for my brother Elias (Ah-ly-us).

My friend Alisa (Ah-Lisa) has always run into trouble even though she always tells people it's exactly as it sounds.

Know someone named Jeffry. Frankly, I really don't like that spelling. I feel like his parents just misspelled Jeffrey on the birth certificate and went with it from there.

Stacey and its variations is a hard one, it seems.

[anapology.livejournal.com]

Not spelt wrong, but heard wrong.

Sophie is always misheard as Stacey, which (no offence!) but I've absolutely grown to detest.
I introduce myself as Sophia most of the time now, even though everyone calls me Sophie.. especially on the phone.

[lustdumpster.livejournal.com]

same here, i work at qvc and i speak really fast during our introduction every phone call and the customer usually hears ashlyn rather than ashley, i guess.

[traecrochet.livejournal.com]

My name is Tracy, and I get Tracey, Tracie, Traci, Tracee, Traysee, and Treesy. I like the spelling of my name and hate it all other ways.

[jordle.livejournal.com]

I'm Jordan (I'm a girl) and it amazes me how often people spell it wrong. You'd think Michael Jordan and the like people would spell it Jordan by default but nope. I get Jordon (which I think looks absolutely disgusting), Jorden, Jordyn. Seriously, any way you can spell Jordan I've seen it.

Someone who I have worked with for a couple of years was putting all our names and phone numbers down. I looked at my name and said 'It's dan - with an A" and she said "Oh you spell it with an A?!' Like that was weird or something!!

[lustdumpster.livejournal.com]

idk why but almost everyone i've ever known has tried spelling my name ashely. my first boyfriend used to misspell it in our ~love notes~ all the time and i ignored it as a courtesy because he was a bad speller anyway but it always irritated me because we dated for two years and he still couldn't spell my name lmao.

[morphinae.livejournal.com]

I'm a Jennifer, but I go by Jenn and people ALWAYS spell it Jen. It looks so..unbalanced that way, it drives me nuts. Considering my e-mail begins with Jenn@, it drives me bananas and people still refer to me as Jen in the e-mail. But it could be worse, so I live :)

[chibiaichan.livejournal.com]

yes! my name is Daniele- it is usually spelled Danielle. btw: my twin sisters name is Stacy =)

[applesnpairs.livejournal.com]

My name is Kristin. So I've gotten Kristen (this is most common), Kristyn, Kristynne, Krystin, Krysten, Krystyn, Christen (this is actually my friend's name), Christin, Christyn, Cristin, Crystin, Cristen,and Kirsten and Kristine variations as well. Essentially every variation you can think of that has 'Kris' in the beginning.

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

my name is hana (HAH-nuh). not only is it mispronounced (i get hannah 95% of the time), but people always misspell it: hanna, hannah, hanah, etc.

[aleadfeather.livejournal.com]

Hana. That's pretty.

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

thank you.

[sloane-hd.livejournal.com]

I get Sloan a lot. Once I ordered something over the phone and I got the package and it said Slown.
People never catch my name right when they hear it for the first time (I live in Belgium) so I always repeat and spell. And then they write it down and forget the pronounciation and call me Slow-Anne.
Why did my mother give me such a lousy name!!!!

[florallove.livejournal.com]

My name is Kristina, so obviously I get Christina all the time. Even people who've known me since I was a baby spell it wrong. I understand, though. I don't really mind.

I used to get Christine a lot, it's less often now.

[mystickiwi.livejournal.com]

Hannah. Really freaking simple right?
Apparently not. I get Hana and Hanna more often then I get Hannah. Which is really sad to me. I tell people I spell it "The Palindrome way"
My middle name is Maree, it's a family name, I had an aunt Marie who started Maree's dress shop with that spelling because it would stand out more to customers, and it's sorta stuck. Not too many people are spelling my middle name, but when I write it down they like to point out that "I spelled my middle name wrong."

[decembermalice.livejournal.com]

My name is Stacy. No one can spell it. I get a lot of Stacey, and occasionally Stacie. My landlord, who I email and send checks to, with the name Stacy on them, still spells it Stacey.

In middle school, I hated my spelling so much that I started going by Staci for a while.

I still do not like the name in general.

What's really annoying is that people never remember it or hear it right. I've gotten CeCe, Tracy, and Stephanie a lot. I'm not sure if you have similar experiences, but this happens a lot.

My favorite spelling would be Stacey, since I like the even number of letters, and it doesn't look silly like Stacie.

One thing I hate about the name is the lack of "usable" nicknames. I mean, Stace is okay once in a while but you can't exactly be like, hi, I'm Stace! With Stacy, it's even hard to use 'Stace.' I get Stac a lot. It looks awful. And my friends called me Stacky for a while because that's a way you -could- pronounce my name if you were trying to be weird.

[aleadfeather.livejournal.com]

We are definitely on the same page. I had a friend named Stacy and we made fun of her awful spelling by calling her Stacky, too! ..maybe that was you, haha.

I also get Tracy and Stephanie a lot, although my mom calls me CeCe as a nickname, since that's what I thought my name was when I was really little. My middle name is Jean, so I introduced myself as CeCe Dean.

I am pretty bitter about not having any nicknames.

[serenebean.livejournal.com]

I'm Theresa. I've gotten EVERYTHING.

Teresa, Treesa, Tareesa, Thresia, TRACY (?!)...

I definitely feel the same way you do about needing the extra letter: I LOVE my name, but I really hate it when it's spelled without the H!

[kellyjoy.livejournal.com]

I'm Kelly, which I always thought was a really easy name. I never used to have a problem with misspellings until fairly recently - I've gotten Kellie, Kelley, and Kelli.

I spelled my name out for someone recently, and he replied, "Guess your parents weren't very original, huh?"

No, and I'm glad they weren't. I'd rather not be named Kell-E or something equally as horrific.

[aleadfeather.livejournal.com]

What a ridiculous remark to make.

It's idiots like him who name their children Cellleighey (Kelly, haha).

[padfootinpurple.livejournal.com]

I'm Kathryn and get everything but that: Catherine, Katherine, Catheryn, Katheryne, etc. Once I got Kathyrn at Starbucks, but I think that was just a mix-up because it was busy.

I'm really not fond of any other variations of Kathryn which I think stems from my lack of patience when I was younger and no one at all spelled my name right.