It isn’t - it’s Sara, actually.
Yes, it’s boe DOE nee. It’s usually pronounced boe DEE nee, or BOE dine (long I, no third syllable). It’s more often mispronounced than properly pronounced.
My husband gets it all the time. He has a name like “Tommy”. That’s his actual name, on his birth certificate and everything. Every job he’s had, he gets at least one paycheck made out to “Thomas”. And people assume since he goes by " Tommy" , he must not have a problem with being called “Tom” and won’t stop calling him that, no matter how many times he tells them he prefers “Tommy”. I don’t actually think they’re doing it willfully - I think they’re just operating on autopilot " New employee named Tommy ? It must be short for Thomas. I’ll fix his paperwork."
I suddenly had a ‘need-to-know’ of what she looked like… It’s uncanny…
My name is already pretty unusual, but it also happens to rhyme with “ass.” In other words, my childhood was awesome. Probably with this euphony in mind, many people (almost everyone trying it for the first time, even my grandfather) will append an extra S, sometimes even a T.
My name is very much like a common girl’s name, but with an added vowel that makes it a long sound instead of the usual short one.
Even if I introduce myself by name in person, within five minutes people are calling me by the other name. I don’t bother correcting people anymore.
Nasty old bitch.
Ah, just like my ex. And they always always ALWAYS, without fault, put an ‘h’ in there, right? 
No, they always put the Z in there.
There are bastards in this world who wilfully spell my first name wrong. It’s an androgynous name when heard, but spelled one way with boys and another with girls. I’ve had emails where they have to spell my name to email me, then the FIRST line has my name spelled wrong. I just want to dickpunch these obtuse people.
I was introduced to someone who’ll be cursed with correcting people her whole life. Her name is Livia, and she is four. I said “Hello, Olivia” but the O’s blended together. She replied “Most people say my name wrong” and I blushed. Then felt bad, because I knew what she had in store for her. 
Three, cara: anTOnio. At least pronounced the way it’s done in Spanish and Italian, I’m not responsible for how people who say “boo-eh-nos dee-as” pronounce Antonio.
My full firstname is four words (nowadays the Spanish government has, for computers’ sakes, decided to drop the middle two); I go by an “evident nickname” (like “Bob” for “Robert”). My first lastname is three words (we actually had to go to court, as they wanted to drop the middle one and stick a dash in there). There is no middle name and there is a second lastname.
In Spain, I get people who write the nickname as two separate words (it’s only one); I’ve had someone actually try and convince me that I had to spell it with a “y”, she only shut up after I pointed her to the names of several actresses who share mine, and who write it as a single word, with an “i”. I’ve never seen anybody who actually had that name write it as either two words or with a y, all those of us who share that name spell it the same way AFAICT.
Abroad, I think the most :smack: cases were having “la” listed as my lastname (under the reasoning that “first word = first name, second word = middle name, third word = lastname”, they had the whole eight-word mess), “de” listed as my name (same, but this time the data they had was “Initial las t name”), and that one who not only merged the second and third words of my lastname into a new word but misspelled the vowels.
Yes, I get it. I introduce myself; I sign my e-mails, I wear a name badge at work, my name is on my office door. Within seconds of meeting me, people decide that they know better than I do what my name is.
I am the opposite of Ms. Becton; I rarely have the gumption to say anything because I am worried of looking like a bitch. I tell myself I have the right to be called by my own name, and by the time I work up the courage to tell the person, it’s too late and he’s walked away. I’ve sent a couple of private emails to people who’ve posted on my Facebook page, and they’ve been very kind in responding, especially when I explain that when being called by that nickname reminds me of very bad things in my past. But I’m just not brave enough to tell people to stop, usually.
My daughter’s name is Sarah. She’s 26. My sister *still *spells it without the h - what can you do?
I’m Michelle. Up thru high school, I went by Mickie. After I joined the Navy - 38 years ago - I started going by Michelle. But one sister, her husband, and a few random relatives and friends still haven’t caught on. No idea why, but I’ve been Michelle twice as long as I was Mickie, fercryinoutloud!!!
At first I was confused about your complaint, but now I think I get it – they’re not pronouncing the “107” at all, are they?
My name is Eloise. My best friend insists on spelling it “Eliose” She puts it’s on birthday cards and everything. I find it rude.
Holy shit! Liz Becton needs to get a grip! I thought she was unneccesarily bitchy when making the asinine “Who is Liz” remark, but it rapidly degenerated into full-throttle lunacy. Jim McDermott, or whoever she was corresponding with, has more patience than I could ever have, even if I made it my full time job to be a more patient person.
So anyway, I had a friend named Andres who people insisted on calling Andy.
I just figured some trek nerds were calling him 10 of 7. Which is really lame because he doesnt even have a hot body, much less boobies.
Which I find funny, because I’m a Sarah, and people always leave the h off, even though it’s spelled right there in front of them. My last name ends in -son (like Williamson) but people can’t seem to read that part. It’s always “Mrs Williams” or :smack: “Sara Williams” .
Repeat offenders make me nuts - PAY ATTENTION, DAMMIT!
The only willful way people mess up my name is using my husband’s last name, which I did not take, even though they know better. That’s a different issue, though.
As far as my first name, it’s the normal “nickname” for a longer name. (Think “Joe” rather than “Joseph.”) People occasionally use the longer version that isn’t my name, but it hasn’t come up often. Usually they just ask.
Hey, Antonio, what if you started linking Antonio Bandaras in people’s minds with you? Maybe they aren’t really doing it willfully; they just can’t remember. “Hey, I’m Antonio, just like Antonio Bandaras!” I bet most people don’t even retain that the actor’s first name is Antonio, it just flows into Bandaras. Just a thought. Might help.
As for me, I get called Helen occasionally, but not enough to get worked up about. My last name, however, is pronounced correctly about once every 100 tries, and that’s by someone who’s actually heard it and are probably from Louisiana (where it’s semi-common in one region). What gets me are the people who I’ve worked with for years and have heard the name for years and years. Occasionally one will say it like it looks like it might be pronounced and I’m like WTF? Where have you been the last 20 years?
[ETA: My actual last name is not Cherry 
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This might be a difference in Mexican Spanish and Spanish Spanish, but around here, the guys named Antonio pronounce it an TONE ee oo. The i and o are separate syllables. And there are LOTS of Hispanics in this area named Antonio. It’s pronounced the same way on the Sicilian side of my family, though I would not say that my American relatives speak with a true Italian accent…not after a couple of generations in the US. But I always hear Antonio as four syllables, not three. If it was pronounced an TONE yo, I’d consider it a three syllable name, but around here, at least, it’s never pronounced that way.
I don’t have an E at the end of Lynn. This confuses some people. Usually I just mildly correct people when it happens, as it’s a very minor issue to me.
I do feel kind of bad, now. I named my daughter Lisa rather than Elizabeth. She’s never seemed to have a real problem with it. I think that Lisa and Elizabeth are diverging, that is, Lisa is not really considered to be only a nickname any more.