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No one seems to have trouble pronouncing my name, although there are variations of spelling. There is not a familial significance to my name; my father liked the actress Gina Lollobridigida, so that was who I was named after.

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Rashaan. Is it pronunced (Russian) or (Rash Ann)
Growing up people mispronounced my name all the time but I personally didn’t care. I believe that stems from people mispronouncing my dads name and him ultimately not caring about the mispronunciation. I played sports through our high school so must people would call me by my last name which had even stuck around to this day. I’ll call the students whatever they want me to call them as long as it’s appropriate.

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My name is spelled differently than the traditional "Emily" but it is pronounced the same, its just that my name is spelled correctly. My last name is the one that I have had a few problems. Everyone would pronounce my last name “O’ Valley” to which I would always roll my eyes and correct them and say that the “double LL’s are pronounced like a Y as in yellow”

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In Japan, Japanese kids would call me Ma-shu, being that there is no "th" sound in the Japanese language. I grew on it and thinking back on it makes me rather nostalgic. I used to go by Matty when I was younger but I remember one day a family friend came to school and said "hey Matty!" in front of all my classmates waiting for lunch, and they all laughed about it - and as a kid I felt pretty embarrassed.
Nowadays most of my close friends and family call me Matty but i used to be embarrassed of it in my school years.

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I never had issues with a teacher mispronouncing my first name, but sometimes my last name "Cecil". Sometimes I'd get a "Seceel" or "Secil". My last name has become more important to me within the past few years or so as I have taken more time to research my heritage and genealogy and I take pride in my name and where I come from. People's names comprise part of the core of their identity, and everyone should make every effort to address someone by their correct name.

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I never had issues with people pronouncing my incorrectly, but it was always a freaking job to get people to spell my name correctly. my first and last name is something always spelled incorrectly. Doctors records, school records, awards, etc. people never took the time to actually read my name and spell it correctly. I have had people argue with me about the spelling of my last name like it was my fault they spelled it wrong. the x ray lady really yelled at me for the 5 year error in their system when i correct them every time. Also Haddad still has my name as llyson Petersen in for attendance.

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Nothing ever with my name but also I've never given much of a thought to anyone mispronouncing my name or anything like that. It doesn't bother me at all, I've been taught that since a young age to give no weight to such things like this. In fact I'm probably the worst person to ask about such things as this, they just don't hold any water in my case. As for out with other people I believe I've seen it but it's hard for me to comprehend the impact it has on others, only your own opinion of yourself should matter in the end. It's your path in life, not theirs. So be you.

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I had a friend who's name was Angelica as well. Our professor at the time, Stillwell. The first day of class he asked is it "Angelica" or "Angélica." She said. "i don't care." So he spent the rest of the semester calling her Chuck.

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As an Sergeant in the Army I had a soldier with the last name of Kkwazzawazzqiltk who was born in Africa. I tried several times to pronounce his name correctly with him demonstrating. I was unable to get it correct, so eventually instead of consistently butchering his name, I asked if I could just call him Kwazz. He was ok with that and asked all of the other soldiers and leaders to call him Kwazz as well. As for my name, while it is easy to pronounce, when I was a kid, other kids would change my last name to pick on me. They would change my name from Porter to Porker, athletic suPorter, Porner, and others.

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My name is relatively easy to pronounce. However, my last name (Helland) was regularly mispronounced for the comfort of the one speaking it. Heel-and was more appropriate than the correct pronunciation of Hell-and, especially for the highly religious community I grew up in proximity too.

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For myself, i have never had any issues with my own names at all during my school experience.  In my Field experience, I have not seen any teachers struggle with there names. I know for my mom who taught at health careers she had a lot of students who immigrated from Asia and the Middle East. Largely a lot of them would change their name to make it easier. I wonder out of those students who wanted to really change their name.

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Countless times throughout my life, people have pronounced my name wrong. My first name is Blayne, but my last name is almost impossible to pronounce. It's very difficult for people to pronounce my last name, especially those who have never seen or heard my last name. My last name is Hisquierdo (His-scared-doe). My Hispanic last name, which I am proud of, has been butchered numerous times. My name would be pronounced wrong almost every time an announcer would say my name at track meets. Even the other day somewhat asked how to say it correctly. I don't get mad anymore, just have gotten used to it. It's a good way to start a conversation, I guess.

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Growing up, no one seemed to remember my name. I always presented myself as Josh, but people couldn't get their head wrapped around that name. Jacob, Jake, John, Jason, Mark, Michael, David (that one is ok, because it is my middle name). In high school, the misname seemed to be the worst. That's when I gave up and just let people call me whatever they wanted. Any teacher, principal, boss at work, and any other adult type that I associated with called me any other name other than Josh, and I just accepted it because I never saw an end to it.

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In my experience I have had my name mispronounced many different times at many different locations.  After awhile I just learned to respond to my name as long as it sounded close to it, of if I knew that they were addressing me.  Now that I am an adult, I have learned to either correct people or I announce my name before they have a chance to say it.  In my observation class, my teacher seems to know each kids name and  how to pronounce it, (more than likely because it is the second semester of the school year) so there isn’t really any type of mispronounciation in the classroom for me to observe.

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My name is Angelica but is pronounced as if there is an accent on the e (the Spanish version). Growing up I went to schools that were majority Hispanic, so I never really had problems with people mispronouncing my name. It was not until college and the real world that I had to experience this. People have trouble saying and spelling my name if I pronounce it the Spanish version. Sometimes people have asked if they  can call me Angie, I tell them no. I don't really like when people shorten my name unless its my childhood/growing up nickname. There are times where I have had to refer to my name in the non Spanish version, but I end up telling myself why did I do that?

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When I was in school, many of my classmates came from African background and their names would be unique and sometimes hard to pronounce. Many of those students adopted a nickname and when they would first encounter a teacher (like the first day or a sub), they would jump in with the nickname before the teacher could even attempt to pronounce their full name. I spoke to a few of these classmates before about how they felt about their names and they would share their frustrations because no one would attempt to learn their full name or they would try to assign them their own nickname. This made them hesitant to connect with the teacher and often caused them to have some sort of resentment towards that teacher.