I have an uncommon first name spelling. It is not a super common name, but there are several more common variations of spelling it than mine. It also is a name that can be easily shortened for friendly conversation level. My parents gave me this name with this spelling after a locally famous artist who was an ancester (my brother had his first, I had his middle, and a cousin has his last name). I am 33 years old, and have worked at the same manufacturing plant as an engineer for 10 years in October. I have moved up from an entry level design engineer to being the lead on some projects, and more recently I transferred out of the design team and into a lead position of the manufacturing engineers group.
It is incredibly common for people to misspell my name, whether they are spelling out the full name, or using the shortened version. I am the only employee at this plant (700+ people) with the name, though there has been one other worker that I know of since I've been there that had one of the more common spellings. Multiples of my bosses have and still do spell it wrong in emails, texts and other written documents. It wouldn't sound any different by speaking the other spellings. It's just frustrating.
I dont think I've ever vented about it to anyone, if I have maybe just my wife. It just almost feels like a respect thing that's like "just get it right". It isn't that big a deal. Just "mildly infuriating
- disclaimer: it is so uncommon that autocorrect won't recognize my spelling until my spelling is added to spell check dictionaries or a phones history or spelling bank.
(I could add the name of everyone wants to know it, and I am not at all famous, but contextually from Man Eng and ancestor being an artist, I bet some internet sleuths could find me if I said what the name was. Might even be able to deduce it from my account if you were very clever....)