Ambrosie
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I don't have an especially uncommon name, but I’ve had people who don’t get it. It starts with a Y. But I’ve been called Nivea and Ambrosie. Hence my username on hereIt's a blatant double standard by the public and media. That said, I never heard that name before and would probably struggle with it but I'd be the type of person to write in down and then spell it out phonetically to make sure I got it.
I think in most cases when people can't get a name it's due to them not having heard it before and struggling to compute it, not anything nefarious like a lot of people seem to claim. I'm Irish and we would have debates at work before we call people about how their names are actually pronounced and it is mostly the traditional Irish names that cause the problem!!