Naming a name

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Versions of my name exists in many different languages, and so when I meet someone from a country where they have a version of my name, they often default to their local pronunciation (or just the English version, if they don't have it in their country). My first surname often causes some issues for people who don't speak Swedish, but my second surname don't seem to be causing anyone any problems (and it's a surname that's very popular in Sci-fi, for some reason, so people have heard it). Swedes quite often try to combine my two surnames into one when they speak, with some interesting results.

people have no idea what to make of my name...

My name has 4 vowels in a row. Not even people from around here get it right most of the time >_>

Not really. My name is Yordan and most English speakers try to pronounce it like Jordan, but the Slavic version has the emphasis in the end of the word, apart from that it's rarely mispronounced. But my last name is very rare and is misspelled all the time.

I'm lucky with my first name (Diana), but my last name is basically a nightmare to write and pronounce for most people. I'm mostly Romanian, but my last name is Polish, which was Hungarian-ized (for lack of better wording) by my grandfather. Which in my case pretty much means that the "ski" turned into "zki", so most Romanians have no idea how to pronounce my name when they see it.
My older cousin literally had a full wall of diplomas and awards for boxing when she was in high school, and I remember seeing at least 4-5 different spellings.

depends of the region tbh

everytime someone that speaks fluent english online tries to pronounce "faboitas" for the first time they say "faboit...ass"

I don't care about pronunciation.
My name is Italian but foreign people pronounce it differently.
I play along and never correct them.

I think it completely depends on the region of the world. I don't mean necessarily language, but the similarities between them.

Based on "The best way I can describe its pronunciation is Qui-biss", i'm pretty sure i could handle that, But being norwegian i would likely say "Kvibbis", "Ku-i-biss" or "Ko-i-biss" or even "Kåi-biss" (which sounds like "coy-biss"), when just reading it,

(with quite strong K, U and O). Using Q is not even very common in our language.

There is a quite common saying here, "Navne skjemme ingen"; Meaning "The name shames no-one" or "A name shames no-one" . :)

https://youtu.be/_Gbtm-93oqE ...im pretty sure there exist men who are called Su or Sue :)

I have 2 names. One is Dutch, so it's easy for the locals and they won't have trouble prounciating it. I like my other name much more but rarely use it, as people will definitely butcher it.

Well, even some people at work don't pronounce my name well :D

My name is Răzvan... go figure. :P

Not with name, but people often make mistakes in my THREE LETTER surname xD

Never had any problem with how people pronounce my name, it helps that it follows standard spanish spelling and it's not really rare.
What some people tend to do is forget my first surname since it's quite rare, what might end up on people mixing the order of my names.

Every language has its own way of writing sounds (English sucks at this), so it's very hard to correctly pronounce a word you never heard.
When you don't know how to read an unknown, foreign word (wherever it comes from), you (at least here in Italy) tend to anglicize the pronounciation, as English were the supreme language of something like that...

Not my name, but where I work I have to type in names all the time.. and it's terrible.
Guy with name Carlton.
It was Charallten. He didn't automatically try to spell it for me, like I would SOMEHOW guess that's how it's spelled.
I get tons of black people with terrible names too, but they always spell it. They either know their name is retarded, or because I'm white I just wouldn't get it. I don't.
Stop doing this to your children.. you aren't unique. It's not clever or original to invent a new spelling and pronounce it the same way.
You're just inconvenient and annoying.
Kathy and Cathy? Fine. Katee and pronounce it Kathy? NO, WRONG.

But of course this is different than going to other countries and having people butcher your name.
If people messed it up in your home country though, screw you, you have a stupid name.

A boring wooden Door or a glamourous palm D'or? It's all the same to me, but actually it's awe as in awesome. So what do I get from every Indian call centre? Da Wee. That's just taking da piss.

My name is Lithuanian (Arūnė), so even if foreigners know how to read those letters, they still never pronounce them the right way (English R sounds different than ours, for example). And fellow Lithuanians often confuse me with other girl names like Šarūnė or Ramunė because those are very common and mine is very rare -_-

It happens all the time. My name is Raymond andmost people don't say the "d" at the end, while it actually should be said. And I'm sure english people (probably most languages) pronounce my name differently.

Nah, they pronounce it fine. Tho they have problems with my surname :D

Well, people I meet usually call me Italy and it's annoying because I have no connection to Italy, My name is called Itay I-tay It's so annoying when someone can't pronounce your name right.

Note: Thanks for the giveaways :P

Nobody could spell my last name in my home country. Nobody can pronounce my first name in my current country. I can never win ┐(‘～`；)┌

not gonna lie, i wouldve pronounced it co bus.