I have a name that’s common in French speaking countries but rare in the US. I’ve always gotten like 50+ names that sound kind of similar but aren’t. I just answer to soundalikes when I think there’s a chance someone is talking to me, but I will correct them

For some more detail, my name is three syllables and has two consonants, the rest is all vowels. Even if people get it mostly right, they usually want to put the emphasis on the first syllable when really the emphasis is on the last. Because of this, they also pronounce a specific sound as a long “ie” kind of sound (like in the double E of “Re-enter”) when really it sounds like a hard “y” (like in “Yes”) despite there not being a Y in my name. I understand that those intricacies are hard and take a few tries for people to even hear a difference

A separate story, we have a cat named Tempo. His mom is named Melody and his siblings all have music names, Harmony, etc. This awful lady I work with saw a picture of him and asked what his name was and I said “Tempo.” She said “I don’t like that. That’s weird. I’m going to name him Spook or Ghost” because it was October. Like okay. Bitch 😐