This troper's name is Sean. Simple, no? I get Shawn, Shaun, Shane. And my last name is such that most people don't even bother writing it. When I introduce myself, I always spell it out (it's nine letters long).

It's ALIX. With an "i". Not Alex, Alyx, Alice, Alisse, or anything else. And yes, it is spelt Alexandra in long form. Just for an extra bit of {{Mind Screw}}. P.S. ALIX.

After reading the above two examples, I feel compelled to mention that there was a guy in my high school named, coincidentally enough, "Sean Alix."

It's backwards for this troper's mother, who's named Alisandra and constantly gets it spelled Alexandra.

My name is Sarah. even my own grandmother spells my name "Sara." My last name is even worse; Koch. it's pronounced like "cook" but looks nothing like it. When asked for my last name, I just spell it out.

This troper's name is commonly misspelled by family and friends, who simply can't seem to grasp that the less frequent spelling of the name happens to be the one my parents decided to use. Most of them are getting better about it, though. I still have to clarify the spelling of my name to people, though. Indeed, my name is actually spelled with an S and not a C.

This troper is first name Mary, last name Lin. Due to the popularity of the name "Mary", I usually am referred to via full name, leading a lot of people unfamiliar with me to assume that my name is "Marilyn" or "Mary Lynn".

This tropers' name (Cory) was misspelled (Corey) on his High School diploma. Then he sent it back, and a few months later received a replacement, spelt properly. Fastforward a few years, to his college diploma and once again......

This troper knows a girl named Cory who's had it bad enough when she lived in England and constantly had her name misspelled "Corey", but after having learned in a German university for a she doesn't seem to notice it anymore since it's so close to her actual name. Her name has been spelled any possible way from Korie and Kori (which would be at least phonetically correct with the German alphabet, but Germans are generally familiar with English names) to Foreign Sounding Gibbrish versions like Courie and Kirie. She even had a teacher who insisted on calling her Courtney.

This troper's first name is Leah. We'll skip past all the mispronunciations and head straight to a job that made out her first paycheck to "Leigh". (It was spelled correctly on everything I sent them on hiring, and my handwriting isn't _that_ bad.)

People constitutionally write this tropers last name the way it's said. Also,more so in the actual pronunciation of my name rather then the spelling,people misspell my name,including my father. This troper cannot spell her off the job imaginary friends name correctly. She never made a correct spelling,since she imagined him before she could spell(at the age of 2 or 3)

This troper knew a Thai girl whose nickname was Noy, short for Piyanant. Noy had a friend whose nickname was Golf. And no, that wasn't a fluke -- her dad really liked the game.

I've decided, for several years, that I am going to change my name, so that it includes a Q. The pronunciation shall not change.

This troper's name (Kurt) was misspelled as "Kirt" on a medication bottle.

Spell my name with a ''Z'', more like. Even when my name was ''right there at the top of the paper'' my teacher would spell it with an S in her comments.

This troper's name is Xanthe. Pronounced Zan-thee. Almost no one spells it with an X first time.

Cool name!!

This editor's first name is Matthew. Every once in a while he'll discover that his name has been spelled with only one 't'. However, this never seems to happen when he's around other people with the same name; as far as he knows, they all have two 't's in their names as well. This only makes those instances of a single 't' all the more mysterious.

That's the opposite of this troper's husband, whose middle name is Mathew with a single 't,' but the entire world seems determined to spell it as Matthew. It's like they're taking the 't' from your name and giving it to him!

This Troper's first name is Ian. You would think it would be impossible to get a 3-letter name wrong. You would be mistaken...

This troper knows someone who named their son Ian...but spelled it Xeon.

Does this someone play too many [=JRPGs=] perhaps?

A professor at the university where this troper studies (a Russian living in Poland) tends to introduce himself to the students like this: He writes his name on the board and says "This is the fourth name I've had since I live here". Polish transliterations are not the same as English ones and there are a few of both.

You'd be surprised how many ways there are to spell the names "Jacquelyn" and "Jackie" respectively. Considering that this troper's parents used a less-popular spelling, this happens all the time. Her little brother's name was also once spelled "Kwin." ''That's not even close.''

my name is Harry. I am an American. Americans do not use the name Harry. It doesn't help that this is my middle name, and live in a small town, where my classmates would know this name, and a teacher my first. I got so tired of the complications of this (Harry. Aaron? No, Harry. Eddy? Harry. Eric?) that beginning in high school I usually 'responded with sure, why not.' to their wild guessing.

My name's proper spelling IS actually spelled with an S. Elisabeth... And every time I turn around there's someone spelling it Elizabeth! GYAH! ENOUGH ALREADY!

Try having a surname that you're not sure how to pronounce,even after ''thirty years''. And that is only mangled further by your thick accent and mumble.

This troper's name is Ryan. Despite the number of people in his age group who share his same exact name, it is STILL misspelled. How the heck does someone mess that one up? (It's been spelled Rian, Rhyan, Ryann and any combination of those three, not to mentioned the amount of times it's been mispronounced as "Bryan" or "Brian" and so on.)

This troper's last name is Pfeifer. The P is silent. Imagine a world where I ''didn't'' have to spell out my last name over the phone...

So, your name means Whistler?

This troper found that many of his Chinese, Hong-Kongian and Taiwanese customers and resellers have a romanized version of their name on their business cards... which often seems to have no bearing on their original names.

Many Chinese are given/choose an English name with no relation to their Chinese name, and use a romanised version of their original Chinese name as middle names. It is possible to tell which part of China a person is from by the spelling they use for the romanisations.

For example a man originally from China named Chungwen might choose William as his American name. This troper would love to hear the reasoning behind such choices...

This troper knew two sisters in highschool. Their real chinese names sounded something like 'An-jen Ching' and 'An-jen Fahng'. While their personal names were this 'Ching' and 'Fang', they self-anglicised to 'Angela' and 'Jennifer' respecitively -- both were chosen as a result of their ''family'' names: 'Angela' because of its initial similarity to 'An-jen' and 'Jennifer' (who went by 'Jen') because of the second syllable in 'An-jen'. Since this troper's name is 'Sean' they both recommended, if he chose to 'chinesise' his name, to go with 'Shui' since it started with similar sounds.

This troper knew a Chinese man who chose to call himself David because ''David Copperfield'' was his favorite book in English.

This troper was told (by a friend whose name is Lokhan but uses Michael) that it's because of pronunciation difficulties. People in Western nations don't get their real name right so they take on an easier option for them to save hassle. Of course, the weird thing is that several random Chinese people I've met have asked if I have a "Chinese name".

Of course, this troper has a friend from upstate New York named Ghen-ki who uses it exclusively despite living in the US his whole life and only speaking English. Annoyances abound when forms don't allow hyphenated first names (as his proper, official name includes it).

This troper has a cousin who, while living in Hong Kong, used to un-officially change her English name on a whim.

This Troper's cousin lived in China for years as an English teacher. When he brought home his Chinese girlfriend, he explained that her Chinese name was hard to pronounce, so she went by "Mikki" (pronounced "Mickey") in English.

There are a number of times when people spells this troper's last name as Lee, instead of Li. I am Chinese, and Li is a common Chinese last name. Besides, other than Bruce Lee, how many Chinese people actually has Lee as a last name?

Meanwhile, Koreans often take similar-sounding Anglo names. They'll have the same ''starting letter,'' at least. This troper has met two different Jays--one Jake, the other [[strike:Justin]] scratch that, Justin's Vietnamese! Well, you get this troper's point.

I once met two Korean-American sisters named Yoon and Yune. Apparently the names are spelled and pronounced identically in Korean.

This Troper's name is Scott. Not "Scot", or "Scoot", or even "Scottt", as plenty of his friends (and even managers at work) have mispelled. The second one is especially the worst.

This troper's former [=PhD=] advisor's original (Chinese) name is Xiaoqing, but he goes by Frank...

This Troper has an exchange-student friend from Taiwan who also goes by Frank, though his real name is Tzu Fen. As well, two of my friends are exchange students in Japan and have changed the spellings of their names to make it easier for their classmates - Madison and Mickey have become Madelee and Mikki.

This troper attended a high school with a number of immigrant Chinese students. There was a subtle but vehement split between those who opted to keep their Mandarin or Cantonese names, and those who chose to take a more western one.

This troper's name is Aidan. EVERYONE, from my grandparents on down to my teachers spell my name Aiden. They even mispelled it on my driver's liscence. Needless to say I had to send it back in to have it redone, but it's the DMV.

This troper's grandfather was told by the registrar office that 'Kareen' (that spelling) was not a real name when his daughter (my mum) was born. He had to change it to Karen instead.

My name is Candice (like the actress Bergen, who played Murphy Brown). Yet people have often spelled it as Candace (like Cameron, who played DJ Tanner). The worst offender was the history teacher I had twice in high school, who spelled my name with an A even well into the second time I had her. To make matters worse, my mom told me that she originally wanted to spell my name Kandyce, but that whoever did my birth certificate didn't get down the "correct" spelling. To that I say thank ''God''.

This troper is named Alyssa. That's with two S's. Either people pronounce it incorrectly (uh-Lee-suh), or they remove an S. Occasionally, they replace the missing S with an extra L. I nearly smacked a boyfriend once when I saw my number under Allysa in his cell phone, after sitting next to him in class for a year.

This troper's cousin has the same problem, and sometimes with two S's ''and'' two L's.

Played straight and inverted with this troper. Her name is butchered a million different ways in her native English, but can be transliterated perfectly to Japanese. No one who knows katakana ever mispronounces it after the first time, if at all, but a lot who don't never get it right, including some of her ''doctors''. Ironically... it begins with an S.

This tropers last name is apparently unspellable in english. Theres no diacritics, silent letters, or anything like that, but people can't seem to grasp that my last name ends with an O, ''despite being pronounced that way''. With the intent of being a writer, I can already tell I will need a pen name (since its apparently also unpronounceable). Oh and whenever my family goes out to eat and we make a reservation we need to use a fake family name. Thats how bad it is.

You would think that Derek would be an easy name to spell. Wrong. Possible variations include an i instead of a second e, a ck instead of k, and two r's instead of one. This seems to have become less of a problem as I've gotten old though.

This troper's name is Madeleine. You. Would. Not. Believe. how many different ways this has been spelled wrong. The worst has to be her 7th grade health teacher, who spelled it "Madalhaine". ''Has anyone ever been named that, ever??''

This troper, a fellow Madeleine, feels your pain. Madelyn seems to be a popular one, as well as the ever-popular Madeline, Madaline, and occasionally Madison.

This troper's had to deal with that in relation to his last name. It's Gonzalez. WITH A Z! Countless iterations include Gonzales, Gonsales, Gonsalez, good lord people, it's the most common hispanic name ever, except maybe Rodriguez. I AM NOT PORTUGUESE! SPELL MY NAME WITH A Z!

This troper, whose last name is Valdés, gets this treatment often. They either write it as "Valdez", or in more jarring examples, with B instead of V. Cue rage.

This troper has the incredibly unique name of 'Norika'. Pronounced "NOR-ick-ah" by teachers, "Na-REE-kah" (correct) by everyone else. It's also mispelled Narika, and translates to some ''lovely'' nicknames, first on the list being "Na-Freak-a".

You would not believe how many ways it is possible to misspell "Bryan Adam" (please don't stalk me). TWO COMMON NAMES. NINE LETTERS. COME ON PEOPLE.

To be fair, "Brian" and "Adams" have much better odds of being used. In cases of confusion, what would you assume?

This troper's name is Laura. Not Lara, Lora, Laurie, Lori, or for heaven's sake, Lauren. Troper is at a loss to understand why so many people don't know how to spell it.

Do I know you? My best friend in Wisconsin is ''exactly'' the same way, and her hatred of the name "Lauren" comes from an ''{{Alias}}'' character o.O

There are 27 mis-spellings of this troper's last name.

AllanAokage is misspelt as often as one can imagine. Made more embarrassing by the fact that, in Welsh, "Allan" means "exit" is one uses a atypical pronunciation, so I'm often accused of faking it. I'm used to being called "Alan", "Alun", "Allen", "Ellen" (I don't know either), or variants of them by this point. Some people insist on spelling my surname with a D, though...

This troper's last name, Myers, which is not that unique of a last name, has many variations, including Meyer, Meyers, Meier, and Mayers. Even after I say it's spelled Myers as in Mike the actor or Michael the serial killer. My first name, Fiona, has been turned into Pheona, Fayeona, Phione, and Fione. SERIOUSLY, IT'S NOT THAT HARD.

{{Rebochan}} is a nickname for my real name, Rebecca. Which I spell normally. I can't tell you how many creative spellings I've gotten. Besides the Hebrew "Rebekah", I've also had people spell it with two b's, all the e's replaced with a's, one C (apparently a common Spanish spelling), and some that I can't quite remember.

This troper's name, Patrick, is fairly common and easy to spell. So I was rather amused when a Starbucks barista once wrote it as "Patryc" on my drink. I even briefly considered adopting that spelling.

This troper's last name is one letter off from a very common last name. Her name is still fairly common, but invariably people will assume it's a misspelling and pronounce it as the more common one. Worst of all is when they for some reason assume that she has misspelled HER OWN NAME on a form or something and go out of the way to correct it for her. And yes, this happens all the time.

This troper, last name Nathanson, has seen "Nathansen", "Nathenson", "Matheson", ''"Matthis"''...

He also has a canonical example in one of his own writings, which started as a typo or perhaps just forgetfulness but was intentionally left in to make it seem more {{Animesque}}. Yes, it involves an l/r switch in a proper noun.

This troper's name is Julianne. Not Julien, not Julianna, not Julieann, not Jullian, ''Julianne''.

And her friend's name is Rachel. It bugs her parents to no end when it's spelled Rachael, Racheal, etc. #QUOTE# '''Me:''' I've always seen it spelled with an 'A' somewhere. #QUOTE# '''Rachel's Mom:''' ''They're spelling it '''wrong!'''''

Oh my god! This troper's name is Julianne as well, pronounced jew-LEE-on. However, that does not stop people from mispronouncing it (albeit understandably) as jew-lee-ANN, then misspelling it - thus leading others to mispronounce it - as 'Juliann,' 'JulieAnne,' 'Julianna,' an in the case of one psychotic teacher, 'Julian' (which is the MALE version).

My name is Thad. It's pronounced exactly the way it looks. Simple, right? Apparently not: My teachers call me Tad. I don't understand why the simple pronunciation of 'th' could be so hard, when they correctly say it when NOT speaking my name.

This troper has to consistantly remind people that his name is spelled the French way. That's '''''Marc''''' NOT ''Mark''.

This troper's first name is Ray. When writing his name in Japanese katakana, he writes it as ?? (''rei''). His friend thinks it should be ?? (''ree''), because apparently "Rei" is a feminine name. What the heck is she talking about?

Perhaps your friend is thinking of Rei Ayanami?

Or Rei Hino?

While you were thinking of Rei of Nanto Suicho Ken?

This troper's name is Hanna. Not Hannah.

This troper's first name is Elizabeth, but for some reason is always spelled Elisabeth. Is this an inversion of the trope name?

This Troper once had a Ukrainian teacher who, after writing his name on the board, said "Don't ask me why there are two 'y's, I don't like it either, that's just the way the Ukrainian government told me I should spell it."

This troper had a friend named Dmitri way back in Grade 2 and 3, and when he mentioned him in the journal he was forced to write in Grade 3, the teacher always marked his spelling for his name as wrong and corrected it as 'Dimitri', another spelling for the same name. Needless to say, because of how often he talked about his best friend, he got only a C in his English report card. He never got a C in a report card again because he never had the same teacher.

This Troper's ''entire family'' (except her mother, Mary) have had their names misspelled ''many'' times.

Troper's name: Felicia. Has been spelled Felisha, Felica, Felishia, and Felicity (o.O)

Her sister's name: Malinda. Has been spelled Melinda and, in one hilarious spell-checker incident, Mylanta.

Her Dad's name: Derrick. Has been spelled Derek, Derick, Derrik, and Dirk. And that's just the ones This Troper has seen - who knows how many of his teachers got his name wrong before This Troper was even born! Seriously, how hard is such a common name to spell?

This troper's name is Bridget. But unless I specify how my name is spelled, persons attempting to spell my name will always render it as "Bridgette", "Bridgett", "Brigit", and everything else conceivable between these possibilities.

This troper's name is uncommon in and of itself, but is composed of two much more common ones stuck together. No melding, no weird or uncommon spelling for either, just the two stuck next to each other without a space. Nonetheless, someone always finds a way to mangle it into another name (whether spoken or written), without even going into some variant spellings for the two halves.

This lurker's name is Breanna- Bree-anne-uh. Not only is it impossible to pronounce by teachers- I can't count the number of times I've been called Brenna- it's also impossible to spell. Brieahna, Briana, Brianna, Breighana, everything in between- it's the same when I shorten it to "Brie". Bre, Bree, and Brea are common ones. It's also been spelled "Brittany". And this is not counting when teachers who know me, have known me for multiple years, look me dead in the eye and call me any number of strange names.

I have a friend Breanna, pronounced like your name. We have a friend who still calls her bree-AH-na.

This troper gets this on occasion. His last name is Czech in origin, and contains a hard "ch" right in the middle. After so many people spelling it with a K, this troper has gotten in the habit of simply spelling out his name whenever someone asks. Conversely, whenever someone tries to read it, they always pronounce it with a "soft" ch, making this troper one of the ones who always has to speak up to correct the teacher on the first day of class. At least no one gets "Nick" wrong (which is this troper's first name).

My name is not Kimber''ly''. Kimber''ly'' is a brand of toilet paper. My name is Kimber''lyn''. DON'T! FORGET! THE 'N'! This troper has gotten so annoyed with the constant glimpse-and-go of her name that it's become a minor {{Berserk Button}}.

This troper gets his name mangled on a regular basis. So much so that I'm pleasantly surprised when people get it right. However the real problem is for speakers of romance languages. The particular three-vowel cluster in my name throws them completely. In my last job I had to tell my Spanish co-workers "Look, just call me Juan. It's easier all round."

This troper's name is Courtney. Spelled, C-O-U-R-T-N-E-Y, not Kortney, kourtny, Quortnie, courtnee, or, courtnay. She believes that there should be a law against spelling the name other than the way she spells it.

I second that notion! This troper's name is Kelly, a very simple name to spell if it wasn't for the myriad of variations that have popped up in recent years. Keli, Kelli, Kelley, Kellie, and Calleigh all assure that at least 80% time someone is going to add an e or i where it doesn't belong. This would be bad enough, but her last name, "O'Rourke", baffles English and non-English speakers alike. It's pronounced "Oh-Roark", but people are dead set on pronouncing the 'e' at the end, assuming they try and pronounce or spell it at all.

The name's Julin; not so common, but spelled as it sounds. And yet, I've heard/seen Julie, Julia, July, Julie Lyn/Lin/Lynn/Len/etc, Jyulin, Giulin/Giuliana (I don't look remotely Italian, by the way.), Jyulin, Joolen/lin, Juulun, [=JuLenN=] (capitalized like that, actually.), Juliet, June Lin/Lynn/Lyn/Len/etc, and occasionally Julian (a guy's name, by the way.) And I'm just getting "started." I've got a brother named Jamin (also uncommon, but not that hard either.) He's been called/referred to as James, Jamie/Jamy, Jamen/Jamenn, Jam, Jamon/Jamone (Jamón means "ham" in Spanish, by the way.), Jalin/Jalynn (a girl's name, by the way.), Jamil, Jack, Ben/Benji, etc. And to top it all off, my middle name is Elisa. With an S. Not Eliza, nor Aliza/Alyssa/Elyssa/Ellie/Eli (a guy's name, by the way.), Julisa (this has happened before. By my best friend, may I add.), Ellen (also by said best friend.), etc. Thanks, mom and dad, for names nobody can spell nor pronounce.

My name is Jenny. Not Ginny. Spelled with a Y. Yes, I am aware that it is short for Jennifer. No, it should not be spelled with an I instead.

Funnily enough, DON'T spell my last name with an S. My last name is Colin yet people insist on adding extra letters to make it Collins.

When I was younger, my parents gave me the name Abigail, with the reasonably common spelling of Abby. Everyone spelled it wrong constantly, using Abbey, Abbi, etc. When I moved to a new town, I thought that I might as well change the spelling of m name to something more unique, if people were going to spell it wrong anyway. I now know THREE "Abi"s. They at least spell my name right. Teachers still fail. Some even refuse to change it when I tell them that it's wrong.

This troper's surname is a relatively rare Spanish surname. However, due to having lived in English-speaking communities and countries for several generations, it is not pronounced as it would be in Spanish, but as an English corruption. This leads to at least two dozen separate misspellings used regularly, as well as Spanish teachers mispronouncing it (such has been, in the past, a berserk button). This troper's paternal grandmother's ancestors had a similar issue; a Spanish surname via Hebrew and Turkish. Yeah.

This troper's name is Cayley, and I have gotten into the habit of spelling it out the first time anyone asks me. And yet on every invitation or hall pass or note or birthday card from friends it will be spelled "Kayley" "Kaylee" "Caylee" or "Caleigh". I'm at least thankful it's not the Gaelic spelling, the one with the silent "d".

This troper's last name is Leal, seems easy, no? I seem people insist in spelling it as Leão, Loyola, and asking if it is with an L or with an U. HOW DO YOU SPELL LEAL WITH AN U? It wouldn't sound anywhere NEAR the same. Also, for some reason, some people think my first name is either Paulo or Sandro... It's PEDRO... Also, for some weird reason, a friend of a friend keeps insisting my name is... FRED. And for a while I used the pseudonym "Matsuo" (it was a otaku-ish part of my life), due to excessive amounts of Pedros in my group of friends. People still call me Matsuu, Matsui, and Matsoi.

This troper's last name is Klyne-Simpson (no I'm not Spanish,I think) but because it's so long my first name only shows up half-way on the computer, Hilarity Ensues. This is most prominent with substitute teachers. Also, my autobody teacher cannot stop calling me Mr. Kyle-Simpson

My name is Katy, short for Catherine. Its not Katie, Katey, Kaity, Catie, Caty, Katheryn, or, worst of all, ''Kathy''.

This troper's middle name is Birck (a German name). Not Brick. Not Breck. Not Berek. Also, 'another brick in the wall' jokes with my name get boring quickly.

This Troper is called Tamara not Tamra or Tammara. It is not pronounced Tam-ARA, it is TAM-MARA. I am sick of it being said wrong and if I get called Tamzo one more time, I will injure someone.

This troper's surname is Van Horn. Two words. With a space in the middle. No, I don't care what the Department of Public Safety thinks, there is definitely a space.

In Brazil, you can have a lot of this (people like adding "H"s, spelling with K/W/Y, doubling letters, using foreign spelling but Portuguese pronunciation, or simply making up names). And people are getting used to it, sometimes real bad: this troper is Igor, fairly simple, but somehow people wrote "H" in front of his name at least thrice.

This troper's name is Erin. It's not Aaron, Arin, Aarin, Arinn, or any of those other ridiculous spellings I've been given. It wasn't until high school, when the students wore identification, that my name was spelled correctly.

I'm also named Erin, and I've gotten the same thing. Mostly Aaron, even though that's the traditional boy spelling and I'm a girl. Then I went to high school with a girl named Errinn, which just complicated things more when we had classes together. And let's not even get started on the many misspellings and mispronunciations of my Germanic last name

I have the opposite problem, where I have the male name Aaron but it's frequently misspelled to Erin, Eirynn, Monsters}} Aron, or whatever else. It's a little annoying.

0dd1: Two examples:

I have an Italian last name that so many people seem to have trouble spelling, despite it being spelled exactly as it's pronounced. Despite that, I get quite ticked at one particular thing. There is a capital letter P as the third letter in my name (with no spaces), so even if people spell the name right, I still say it's wrong if they render the P as a lowercase letter or put a space between it and the beginning of my name.

My username. It's spelled with a zero, not an O. Everywhere I use this name, people make this mistake (despite a 0 being noticeably thinner than an O). [[HypocriticalHumor I use the misspelling as a redirect to my troper page here, however, as I can never remember how to make a link for something with a number as its first letter...]]

This Troper's best friend is Tricia-not Trisha!!!

My name has an usual spelling, but I've gotten pretty used to it. My real BersekButton is people with unusual spellings of their name who get angry when people can't pronounce/spell it correctly on the first go. If your name isn't Sam or Mary, you're going to have people who can't get it on the first try. It's just a fact of life, and whining about it won't turn people into mindreaders, yanno.

One of my best friends' name is Wernich, pronounced Vernich. Everyone except me pronounces it with a W.

This troper's name is Melissa. Not 'Malissa' 'Mellisa' or 'Melsa.'

Another Melissa here. Don't forget 'Melisa', 'Mellisa', 'Melyssa', or just 'Alyssa/Alissa'...

This troper's last name is "LaRose." Most people anticipate the random capital R in the middle there, and some people forget it (even when I spell it for them), but that doesn't really bother me all that much. What I found just strange was when, at a track meet, I told the judge-guy my las name, he asked if it was spelled "just like it sounded"...and then proceeded to call me "Lacrosse" every time I was up to throw.

The middle letter of this troper's name is usually interchanged from an o to an a. EVEN ON OFFICIAL SCHOOL RECORDS.

This Troper knows a boy named Lygaver. He has spent many years watching people mess up pronouncing and spelling it, and his sister Enri has spent lots of time correcting people that her name is not Emree, Emri, Emmy, Erry, Nri, or Neri/Nerry.

This troper has a good friend named Cuitlahuac. Needless to say, his name is not only mispronounced or not pronounced at all (he was once referred to as "that guy"), but there are very few people who can spell it correctly.

Actually, this troper's name (Rocío) has been frequently mispelled as "Rosio". Heck, someone actually spelled it "Roscio" once. Also, it's pronounced "Ro-SEE-O", but MANY people mispronounce it as "Row-SEE-Oh" despite the fact that I live in a Spanish/English community. I had a band director that would pronounce it "Row-Shio". Granted, he was a Mississippi native...

This Troper has an ''a'' in each syllable of his last name. One is pronounced flat (i.e. /æ/), the other as a neutral high vowel (i.e. /?/). So, why, pray tell, do so many people replace one or both ''a''s with ''o''s? Oh, and my last name begins with a ''P'', not a ''T''. It's bad enough when it's misspelled normally, but it's worse when it's misspelled on official stuff, like electric bills from two different companies; one of them even had the gall to reduce the double consonant in my name to a single. What the fuck, people?

This Tromper's name is spelled ''Stacee'' and nearly all her life she has experienced common mispelling of your usual ''Stacey''. Depending on my current mood, I would either get pissed off or I don't care. But I will get pissed off when my names actually spelling is right in front of them and they ''still'' spell it incorrectly. Facebook for a example: I comment on someones status on wallpost, and they comment back referencing my name...and you guessed it *WHAM WHAM*

My full name is pretty common, however the spelling is not. It's kathArine, not kathErine, thank you very much! It's just like Katharine Hepburn! (Which is why it bugs me to see "Katherine Hepburn".)

Oh my God! Me too! I was starting to think I was the only one! I've seen my name misspelt in all sorts of ways, and on all kinds of things - letters, credit cards, even my father's death certificate. Also, I take it personally when I see "Katherine" Hepburn...

Me three (extra points on taking "Katherine" Hepburn personally because I was named after her). I don't feel so alone anymore...

This Troper's name (Erika) is always spelled "Erica" or "Ericka" despite the fact that the latter is much less common. I don't have a C ''anywhere in my name.'' At least my mom didn't go through with the impulse to spell it "Eriqa"... pronounced exactly the same as normal.

My name is spelled Madelaine, not Madeline!

I, Madeleine, concur. I am SICK of being called "Madeline/Madelynne", and heaven help you if you spell my nickname (Maddie) "Maddy", "Maddi", "Madi", "Maddey"...

This troper is called Marina. Now, you'd think a name like that is pretty easy to spell, but no: it morphs into Mirena, Mariana, and God knows what else. And don't even get this troper started on her surname. (That said, when you put this troper's two names together, it has AddedAlliterativeAppeal and becomes pretty much an AwesomeMcCoolName, which is not too bad.)

My name is "Kristin", not "Kristen"! They even sound different! GAH!!! Even my school got it wrong.

This troper's friend has a young cousin named "Jorg". Pronounced "George". The child in question? He's entirely Scottish. And she thought it was bad being a Robyn-with-a-Y.

This troper's surname is a simple male-name-plus-"son" construction, like Jackson or Davidson. She's lost count of how many people spell it "_____sen" instead of "_____son".

Where do you live? In Denmark, such names are also very common, but we spell it "_____sen" instead. A lot of English-speaking people in Denmark think my name is spelled "Sorenson" when it's "Sørensen".

Australia.

This troper's first name is Mercedes, often misspelled Mercades, Marcades, Mercadese, or Mercedese. Her last name gets hopelessly mangled. She once got called Vasquez at an awards ceremony despite her name starting with an F and not really sounding like Vasquez. Also, the tail end was once spelled "queasy" instead of "quez". Hilarity ensued. Not.

This Troper's last name is DePuy, and people pronounce it De Pwee the first time they meet me (had to spell it phonetically). It's actually pronounced Depew (once again phonetically).

This troper's first name is Dónal, as you can see spelt with a ''fada'' (accent). He requests that you don't include the ''fada''. He doesn't like the ''fada''. If you insist on including the ''fada'', he will gladly correct you. With force.

My surname is the rather Irish "Byrne". Of course, living in England, I'm often confronted with "Bryne", "Byre", "Burn" (which, to be fair, ''is'' how it's pronounced), "Burns", "Burnye"... the list goes on. And that's not even getting into people trying to pronounce it. Interestingly, this never happened during the year I spent in Australia.

This Troper's last name is Cheshier, and ever since Kindergarten, has been misspelled so many times to the point where it is my {{Berserk Button}}. It's not spelled Cheshire, Chesier, Chessire, it is spelled Cheshier, C-H-E-S-H-I-E-R!!

This greek troper, although her name is never misspelled in English, often has it spelled as "?????????" instead of "?????????" in Greek. It annoys me to no end. D<

Xamphynx: FOR THE LAST DAMN TIME, MY HANDLE IS ZAM-PHIHNX, NOT EX-AM-PHAYNX. Gyahhh.

This troper's best friend is named Sydnie. However, people insist on spelling it "Sydney" because every other Sydney in the school has their name spelled that way. We know someone over the Internet that lives in the Australian city of the same name, and when Sydnie told her what her real name was, the friend said, "You're spelling that wrong. I'd know. It's where I live." Sydnie grabbed the nearest atlas, flipped to Australia, crossed out the city, respelled it, and wrote: "Take THAT, world!"

This troper's best friend is named Cindey. Since "C" isn't used that way in German, she got used to getting is spelled Sindey years ago, but recenly, it somohow evolved into Sidney. Said friend is not amused. Shhe also has a classmate named Janin with the opposite problem involving German, it's pronounced "Yanin" correctly but everyone assumes that it's English or French and pronounces it wrong. As for the spelling, from teacher to teacher, it varies from the similar name Janina, to Yanin and Yanina, and from some reason, also to Jasmin.

This troper's last name ends with '''sen''', not '''son'''. I don't blame people who mess it up though, I almost write it like that sometimes ''myself!'' As for my first name, Hailey, it's got like 6 different spellings, the most common mispelling is "Haley" or "Haily" (the second one isn't even a valid variant.) I remembered in elementary/primary school kids spelling my name "Haily" and I didn't mind, they were just kids, but I wallbanged, despite my age, when a teacher spelled it like that.

The name of this troper's mother, which she'll change to soon, is better than her actual name, but has a similar problem with people thinking that everything has to end with "son". In this case, it ends with "zon". It's Labizon and often gets confused with "Levinson", and every letter has been misspelled at some point. This troper made a habit of saying how it's spelled right after saying the name itself instead of correcting it afterwards, but people tend to ignore it.

This troper has the rather catchy name (which she can't wait to get rid of once she becomes old enough to do it legally) of Kalashnikov. Judging by how many years she's been bullied for it, you'd think that people would at least know how it's spelled, but no. She's gotten at least ten different combinations of alternative spelling for the "sh" in the middle and the "v" in the end, and that's just on official school documents. The most common spelling where she lives seems to be Kalaschnikow. And then there's her first name. Four latters, pronouned exactly like it's written, D-I-N-A. Dina. Many English people feel the need to add an "h" in the end and claim that it's the correct spelling, but most simpply choose a remotely similar sounding name like Diana, Daiana, Dana, Tina, Deyna (is that even a name?), Donna, Ina, Rina, Mina, Nina, Daina, Lina, Jina, Zina, Xina... I kid you not. To be fair, the last one happened by mixing my name with my nick from an RPG, but the rest are real and collected from a few different countries.

This troper's name is Emme. Pronounced just like Emma. I understand the spelling is unusual, so I don't mind correcting people who spell it "Emma" the first time, but honestly, if it's right in front of you -- why? The freaking school I go to has me down as "Emma." They refuse to change it. But what really annoys me is when people call me Emily. No, dammit! It's Emme. There is no relation to Emily. I am not an Emily. My name shares the first TWO letters with Emily, that's ALL. Bit of a BerserkButton.

It's Klapper with a "K", not a "C".

It's Carla. Not 'Karla'. Once someone spelt my name as 'Cala' (damn Australian accents). My surname is even worse, it's some really foreign name that no one can pronounce. And it's sad when immature kids laugh for having a strange surname. I also knew this guy named 'Jordon'. It's pronounced exactly like 'Jordan' and people spell his name like that too, including me when I added him to my hotmail address book.

The name is Myles, with a Y. I can't even count the times I got Miles as a kid. This has taught me to become more insistent with people I've met for the first time.

My name is Norman. Unlike many of the cases on this page, my name is spelled the usual way, and yet I've gotten Normon, Normin, and Normen too many times to count.

My Chinese name has a character (?) that is rarely encountered, so most Chinese instructors cannot pronounce it properly.

Everyone calls me Ally and I find it interesting how many ways people spell it. I use the Y spelling but I've seen it spelled Allie, Alie, Aly, and probably some more I'm forgetting. Ali bugs me because it's A) Not pronounced like that and B) I don't think I could take a punch.

This toper's name is Isabelle. Not Isobelle, Izabelle, Izobelle or any of the other ways people have spelled it (and that's not counting the versions with letters missing.)

This Troper's Surname is Dickens, like the author, my favourite mis-spelling has to be Dickings.

My parents named me Rebekah Lyann (Rebekah after my great-grandmother and Lyann is a combination of my dad's sisters names, Lynn and Ann) I started going by Lyann in my late teens. Eighteen years and so far ''no one'' has gotten either name right on the first go unless I spell it out for them. It gets a bit old after a while

This troper's name is Chinese, so many people misspell it. It's spelled Xin Ying but I've seen it spelt Xing Ying, Xin Yin, Sin Ying, Xing Yin etc. My ''yearbook photo caption'' spelt it Xing Ying, even though I was holding an envelope with my name on it in ''clear detail.''

This troper is Anna, ''not'' Anne, Ann, Annie, Hannah or Channah. And definitely not Emma!

This troper's English first name AND last name has been mutilated at some point. First name mutilations: Evonne, Ivonne, Evon, Ivon, Evan, Ivan, list goes on... Last name: Justified to a certain extent, as having A-E-I-O-U convention stuck in your head WILL lead you to mutilate the I-A-O part into A-I-O. Then there is the matter of which romanization to use...

This troper's first name is "Almut", a quite uncommon German name (...it's uncommon even in Germany, where this troper lives) in an even more uncommon spelling. The version that's used most is "Almuth", and her name has been spelled like that even after she pointed out that no, her name was not spelt with an "h". Her name has also been mistaken for "Helmut", which is a boy's name. This lead to this fun conversation she had in kindergarten: (random girl:) "Are you a boy or a girl?" - (This troper:) "A girl." - "What's your name?" - "Almut." - ""Helmut"?! But that's a boy's name!" Ironically, although her first name often gets a letter falsely attached to it, her last name is often thought to be spelt without it's last letter, "t", thanks to this troper's unclear articulation.

With an S indeed...My first name is Spenser. Everybody ends up spelling it SpenCer. Even at times when I've had to give someone my Driver's License. Seriously is it so hard to read?

This troper's last name is Jochens. J-O-C-H-E-N-S. Whenever someone hears it and doesn't ask for a spelling, it's automatically Jokens or some other strange spelling. The other problem is pronunciation: it's "JAW-kens" not "JO-kens" or "Jaw-chens". I'm a fourth generation of a family of German's born in America, people, GET IT RIGHT ALREADY!!!

First of my last names (in Spain we have two, father last name and mother last name) is "Míguez" with an accent in the i. People usually get it wrong and go for the most common spelling of the male first name "Miguel" (Michael) I am a girl. And Miguel is pronounced with an accent in the e. Spell My Name With a Z. D<

This troper's first name is Arianna. You might think that the main name issue I have is people using only one 'n'; you would be wrong. Not only has my name been misspelled with a single 'n', but it is constantly mispronounced. There are those who choose to say 'arr-e-AW-na' instead of 'air-e-AN-na, which is annoying enough. THEN there are those who inexplicably place a 'd' in there and call me 'Adrianna'. As if that wasn't bad enough, my last name is ten letters long and Russian. The 'ch' at the beginning is very commonly thought to be a 'ch' sound instead of a 'sh'. This is understandable, and I don't bear too much of a grudge against those who make this mistake the first time. However, those who are incapable of comprehending the fact that 'dale' is NOT the correct pronunciation/spelling of 'dave', which is at the end of my surname, ARE UNFORGIVABLE.

This troper is used to having to spell out his name, because nobody ever seems to get the spelling right otherwise. You'd think with the ''LordOfTheRings'' films having been made, they'd actually be able to spell "Rohan". Seems not. If I don't give the spelling, it'll almost certainly get spelt "Rowan". As for my surname, I've seen at least two misspellings of it. To be fair, though, it is a fairly rare spelling. There's only about a dozen entries in the Australian White Pages with my spelling.

This Troper's name is Amal, commonly pronounced Umul, Emel, and Uh-mawl. It's been spelled Amel, Amul, Emel, Umul, Emal, Amul, Umal, and countless other variations.

My name is Allyson, but a lot of people write it as "Allison" or "Alison"; I've also had it spelled "Alycen" or even "Alicen"(!). I used to be really annoyed when people did this, but eventually, I gave up on correcting people, save in cases where the proper spelling would need to be used. It isn't as if they're pronounced differently.

People have had to ask how to spell my last name, this was more in elementary school but still. It it, wait for it... Young. And then people have gotten my first name wrong which still isn't that bad, but more understandable.

This Half-Japanese/Half-Scottish Troper takes pride in his awesome name of "Daisuke", A fairly common Japanese name that's pronounced ''Dá-í-s(ú)-ké'', or in lamen terms; The ''u'' is silent so it's pronounced ''Dies-kay'' but it's a fairly common name so obviously there wouldn't be any questions about the spelling, I Mean, Only an absolute Idoit would spell it as 'Dieskay' right? That's what I Thought too...so you can imagine this tropers shock as his ''also'' Half-Japanese/Half-Scottish '''Freaking Geography teacher''' spelled his name as, yup you guessed it; 'Dieskay' on a Test, He kept on doing it until this one time when he wrote my name on the blackboard, I got out of my seat, walked up to the blackboard, erased 'Dieskay', replaced it with 'Daisuke', turned to him, pointed to my name on the blackboard and said; "My Name is '''DAISUKE! D-A-I-S-U-K-E!''' Remember it!". His Face was priceless, My classmates consider it my Crowning Moment of Awesome.

Dude, I think this is awesome. Love your name too.

I have the normal, nice name of Carolina...unfortunately, when you combine it with my not-so-normal, Italian last name, they ''always'' spell it like Caroline. Even though they were using the normal spelling two seconds before and despite the fact that the Italian spelling is ''also'' Carolina. Facepalm doesn't being to describe it.

My name is Greta, and whenever anyone spells it Gretta I get incredibly angry. Even worse is when people mishear me and think it's Reta, no g. Although I suppose it could be worse-I have a friend named Kimberley who has said in grade school her teacher accused her of spelling her own name wrong.

This troper's name is Audrey. It's ''constantly'', I mean, CONSTANTLY! Being spelled or mispronounced as "Audry", "Audrei", "Aubrey" "Audriy", etc. I'm not even a large fan of my own name, though, I wonder aimlessly why others cannot spell my name correctly.

This troper has a name that's just made for this. First name has at least 3 different spellings, middle name has 2, and last name... has too many to count. :/

My name is Geneva. It's pronounced properly, but people spell it like Geniva, Geneiva, etc... My friend Wyatt has it worse. Some people spell it Wiatt or Wyat.

I hate giving my name over the phone. There's something like fifteen different spelling variations, and mine happens to be the least common. Most common mistakes are switching the "e" for an "i" or putting a "c" in the "sh", but even those who make it to the end correct somehow end up slapping two "n"s on the end.

My name is Brendan, not Brendon or Brenden or Brandon. After 16 years, you'd think I'd get used to people getting my name wrong. (Incidentally, I have done a LetsPlay of a certain GBA game which has two unrelated characters named Brendan and Brandon.)

Update, six months later: Now my last name is a problem too. THERE IS NO I IN MY LAST NAME. And my last name is IN MY FREAKING USERNAME.

This troper has the name Rylee. Sounds simple, but when she was in Kindergarten.... Her TEACHER and everyone else spelled it "Riley" or "Raileigh" or "Ralee" or "Ralie", and somehow, a popular choice, "Reighlee". Why? Why, people? It's not that hard to spell Rylee!

This troper's name is Sibyl. It is not Sybil, Sibyll, Sybill, Sybel, Sibol or whatever else people feel like coming up with.

Teachers would always misspell my name as "Eric" when they gave me absent work, and one time I got someone else's ISAT results due to similar naming, it annoyed me to no end, my name is in the school records, why can't anyone get it right?

My parents wanted to be creative so they spelled my name "Ema" which sounds just like the name "Emma." Of course, my name is spelled wrong all the time. Even when people know how I spell my name, they still spell it Emma. Some people do it probably because they think it's actually wrong and I'm trying to be cool and unique, and some others honestly just cannot stand the way my name is spelled. It annoys them so much (which, in turn, annoys me). And when it comes to pronunciation, several people have called me "Eeee-ma." which is just plain ugly