Well, if you told me it’s spelled like the first name of Stefanie Powers, I’d know what you meant. Incidentally, there’s an actress named Stepfanie.
My last name is fairly common in northern Slavic countries. It begins with a
K. I’ve often been asked if I spell it with a C or a K. I have never seen the name spelled with a C, but obviously plenty of people have (or at least think the name should begin with C).
My surname also happens to be kind of similar to a common Hungarian last name. My dad and mom happened to be members of a club which also featured a couple named Steve and Terri, who bore the Hungarian surname. People often asked Dad how Terri was doing, or my mom where her husband Steve was. And this was in the Cleveland (OH) area, where plenty of Eastern Europeans settled.
Also, the suburb in which I lived for most of my life is North Olmsted, but 99% of non-Clevelanders apparently assumed my address labels were defective, as I constantly got mail addressed to North Olmstead even after correcting correspondents. Even the official USPS directory at the North Olmsted post office referred to the city as North Olmstead – whether this was a simple typo, or the book’s copyright trap, has never been ascertained.
Incidentally, I originally had some of the text in this post bolded according to SDMB standards, but preview kept showing a ** followed by regular text. More weirdness!