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This might be a bit picky sounding, but I hate when I hear Italian names starting with Gia-, Gio-, and Giu- here in the states pronounced as gee-AH, gee-OH, and gee-OO instead of jah, jo, and joo. Fortunately, I only know one person with one of those names (it's Giacomo) and his parents were born in Italy, so it's jah, not gee-AH.

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And since I'm on an Italian name kick, I know a someone named Raffaella and her parents pronounced it raf-ee-EL-ah.

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I almost forgot. I went to school with a guy named Joel, pronounced jo-EL.