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If someone's just seeing your name on paper and it's unfamiliar to them, mistakes are forgivable - like with my uncle Geraint, who regularly gets people calling and asking to speak to jerAINT. But I think it's just good manners to have a proper go at getting a person's name right when they're introduced to you, even if it's a name you're not familiar with; otherwise it can come across as 'Your name is weird and foreign and I can't be bothered with it'. For example, I shared a house with a Sharmila who was regularly referred to by one of our other housemates as Samula, which he thought was funny - she actually found it quite insulting, but was forced to put up with it because correcting him made no difference.

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But there does come a point where you just get sick of correcting people, and it's wiser to develop a laid-back attitude, and learn to appreciate the people who do make an effort. And hopefully more people will get Nadine's name right when she's old enough to introduce herself. :)