Last names that are difficult to spell or pronounce

Lauri

libragirl wrote:

Anyone have one that trips people up? I have one evidently.

I have co-workers I have worked with for years who still can't spell and/or pronounce my name. I even have a close friend who can't get it. I wish I had a name like Smith or Brown.:P

Yup. But for some reason it's my first name that seems to give people the most problems.

Thoughts_Arrive

My surname was always pronounced wrong in school, used to annoy me grrr.
Sometimes to this day it still is but everyone at work surprisingly can pronounce it correct.
Those that pronounce it wrong don't sound the K, they think the first letter of my surname (K) is silent.

j-bug

all three surnames i have had people have managed to get wrong.adding a Y at the end,or extra D.and my first name isnt much better.it makes me laugh now,but when i was a kid it used to annoy the hell out of me.

Claireack

I think I probabaly have the most embarrassing maiden name.

Hanberger

You can imagine all the variations of how it was pronounced. My most unusual nickname at school was 'paint brains', which was derived from Berger paints (don't know if they are still on the go).

I don't think anybody anyone ever pronounced my name correctly when it was called out anywhere! It become even more annoying when I became vegetarian at 16. I was a bit of a hippy in those days so to have someone shout out my name incorrectly pronounced brought much joviality to the general public.

Oh how I love my husband and his ordinary, English name. Not once has it caused embarrassment! My poor brother however has had to continue living with it, and as he is in the British Army repeatedly gets it shouted about.

Bump30

620,000 with my first name
25,000 with my married last name
114 with my maiden last name

Hitch-Hiker

While my name is pretty normal, and by now most are anglicised, I'd love to see you guys trying to pronounce some ethnic Irish names. I've heard people try before with hilarious results

catefrances

my last name is a 5 letter common noun. ive had people ask me how i spell that and all i want to say is what are you a fucking idiot? how do you think i spell it? but i dont. i patiently spell it for them.

libragirl

catefrances wrote:

my last name is a 5 letter common noun. ive had people ask me how i spell that and all i want to say is what are you a fucking idiot? how do you think i spell it? but i dont. i patiently spell it for them.

Yeah it's amazing. People can screw any name up really.

tacet

It's not that my given name(Heywood) & surname(Jablome) is that hard to pronounce, it's just that when they
are said together it's a little embarrassing.

pearljgirl2010

i went from an Irish to a Croatian last name...and am now going back to the Irish!! It's funny, but both my maiden and married names sounded nearly identical.

that website is cool--with my married first and last name, I'm the only one in the US! with my maiden and soon-to-be-legal name, there are 95 of us...95, really????

mdigenakis

subtract the M from my username and give it your best shot!

Claireack

Just had a look for a few people on that weblink - the UK one.

I was a bit concerned as my son's name is not listed as a person in the UK. I know he's here, he's spent most of the day lying on the sofa in his dressing gown.

Perhaps it's because he's only 12?

j-bug

i just had a go at the uk one.2 people have my name.

my maiden name there is none.

and my step dads name there are none.

wow.

i know i had an unusal name but still!

Ms. Haiku

In the US

•There are 1,279,726 people in the U.S. with my first name.
•There are fewer than 114 people in the U.S. with my last name.
•There are 1 or fewer people in the U.S. with my name. - ME!

Drowned Out

My name is pretty common, but can be spelt four different ways so I end up having to spell it out everytime anyway...I just spell it immediately after saying it, don't bother waiting to be asked...

Who Princess

catefrances wrote:

my last name is a 5 letter common noun. ive had people ask me how i spell that and all i want to say is what are you a fucking idiot? how do you think i spell it? but i dont. i patiently spell it for them.

Yes, I'll pronounce my very English last name as distinctly as possible and people will still ask me to spell it. After I spell it, they'll say (in the stupidest sounding voice): "OH. Just like it sounds." :roll:

Steve Dunne

steve dunne. a real name. a movie character. at least the movie character made out with janet and had his way with linda.

i still get it wrong on here.

decides2dream

mdigenakis wrote:

subtract the M from my username and give it your best shot!

dee-jen-ahh-kiss?




edit - as to name stats:

1,279,758 people in the US have the same first name as me.
it is the 23rd most popular name.

4,440 people in the US have the same maiden name as me.
it is the 7878th most popular surname.

18 people in the US have the same first name-maiden name as me.

1,284,592 people in the US have the same married last name as me.
it is the 6th most popular surname.

5,350 people in the US have the same first name-married name as me.


my full legal name tho, i am the one and only.
so as i said, i went from a unusual/unique maiden name to an uber common married name...thus why it's nice for ease, but i often use both.

Yefa

There are 3,776,334 people in the U.S. with my first name.
There are 220,338 people in the U.S. with my last name.
There are 2,708 people in the U.S. with my first name-last name combination.

Thoughts_Arrive

pearljgirl2010 wrote:

i went from an Irish to a Croatian last name...and am now going back to the Irish!! It's funny, but both my maiden and married names sounded nearly identical.

that website is cool--with my married first and last name, I'm the only one in the US! with my maiden and soon-to-be-legal name, there are 95 of us...95, really????

Haha!