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I saw another one today. A little boy at preschool called Micah, which admittedly isn't a common name here, had his name misspelled as Miach. I have also seen it spelled as Micha and Michah before - I think people were getting confused with Michael.

You misspelled 'accidentally.' O:-)

My name, Lea, gets misspelled a lot, but it's not common where I live. Most of the time, I get Leah, which is understandable - they're pronounced the same - but once a secretary wrote my name down as Leaha. That one takes the cake. I think she was too distracted to remember how to spell Leah.

I just got a letter addressed to Rosamary instead of Rosemary. I'm guessing it was some sort of typo but it was something pretty important so it seems odd they'd make a typo.

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Anyway, a few years back I worked with a girl named Bridget. As a leaving present we got her lots of little things to go travelling including a keyring. One of my colleagues offered to get the keyring engraved with her name as he also worked part time at Mr Minit. He came back with it engraved Brigitt. Yeah. His name was Kieron and when he started work he couldn't log on to the system as his password had been set up as his name but IT had misspelt it and it took a long time to work out why IT could get into the system but he couldn't.

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I also heard of a woman named Rebbeca because her parents didn't know how to spell Rebecca.

My sister Suki (admittedly not a common name) once got a birthday card addressed to 'Sucky'. She was not amused, but I was!

My name is misspelled frequently. If I say my name is Joan, they spell is Jone or Jon. If I say it's Joanie, they spell is Joney, Jonie, Jonnie, Jonney, Jony, or something along those lines. The most common is they'll write Jon and then squiggly lines trailing off into nothingness.

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I know my name isn't common, but I figured with Joan of Arc, Joan Cusack, and Joan Rivers, that Joan would be pretty recognizable. I get why Joanie throws people, but when I see the way they spell my name it makes me laugh because they might as well right a huge question mark instead.

People misspell my name all the time, as Eric or Erick. I feel like telling them that the Erik spelling is common enough to be thought of as English. I mean, it's a short name, and it's common. It's not like I was named Cuauhtemoc or something like that (I've occasionally heard Cuauhtemoc used in Mexico, though).

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I've gotten Myles a number of times, even on Christmas presents from family. I guess Myles is almost as common a spelling as Miles, but I just don't understand why anyone would assume it's a Y not an I. Does the Y make it more feminine or something? *shrug*

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I remember one time when we wnt to KFC my dad's name (Terry) was misspelt as Tary on our reciept. My dad said that either the person knows someone named Tary or was an idiot.

My sister's name is Katherine, but here in Denmark people always spell it Katrine, so now she just goes by Kate.

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My in-laws still insist on spelling my daughter's name Arven, instead of Arwen, even though I've told them a million times that it's not correct.

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My own family has misspelled my name wrong countless times, especially when I was younger. Some of them were legitimate spellings of Rachel, but...

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I got:

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Racheal
Rachael
Rachal
Rachele
Raechel
and on one weird occasion, Ratzchel

I see Micheal all the time (not the Gaelic, just a mistake), and I get Sarha :-/

A lot of people are confounded by Chloe. It always surprises me, especially with it being the #1 name in my city, currently. Most people spell it "Cloe". My aunt still can't get it right and spells it "Chloie" (but that's probably because she's used to calling me "Krissie" and can't imagine me without an "ie" name!)

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Rossie... that doesn't even...

My sister gets Mellisa instead of Melissa all the time. And Matthew always becomes Mathew. Unless your name actually is Mathew, because that becomes Matthew more often than not. Michael to Micheal is another common one. As is John to Jon. Claire is mistaken for Clare. I know someone who got Joseph on an award instead of Jozef, but that's an easy mistake.

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I have no idea how people make these mistakes. They are common names! You see them everywhere! Why haven't you learned to spell them yet? It's one of my pet peeves for sure.

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Some can be funny. My English teacher expected us to know every little detail of the books we're reading and would quiz us on them. Most people just used spark notes or would get information from someone else. Those people produced some awful mistakes...King Lear became King Lyre, and Myrtle from The Great Gatsby became Merdelf. I wonder how some people can be so stupid.

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I've seen Jessica misspelled as Jesica.

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A long time ago, one of my classmates spelled one of our other classmate's names like Kimbrilly or something way off (her name was Kimberly), but we were still in elementary school, so I'll cut him a break there.

Yeah, I've had my name misspelled as Sahra. It's Sarah. Sara, I understand. But Sahra? What?

Finn - even when I tell them it's not short for something they still spell it Fin.

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I've gotten cards from people who have known us for years and still manage to spell everyone of our names wrong. None of them are that odd.

Yes! I have been a 'victim' of this so many times. My name is Melissa, common right? I cannot keep count of how many times it's been spelled completely wrong, the worst being Millissa. Seriously!

I have seen Sarah spelled as Sahra once or twice.

Anyone who's a bad speller in general might do this. My SIL spells Michael "Micheal." I don't get it either.

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Maybe the person who wrote them down knows others with the spelling Rossie and Natelie. I worked with a Dija from Kosovo in college, and for her name tag, the person who engraved it probably said, "Dia? I know how to spell Dia." and wrote the Spanish word instead of the Kosavar name. (They're pronounced the same.)

Are you sure it was a misspelling? Are you sure that the parents didn't want to be annoyingly different?