> > I recently had an interview with someone named Tobin, a name I had never heard. I know a Toby who is really Tobit on his birth certificate. I believe he was supposed to be Tobid but they spelled it wrong. Or it was the other way around? I think it is a Jewish name.
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> > Fer"Allan"rick
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> I believe that's right - one of my best friend's last name is Tobin and she's Jewish.
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> As for misspellings...you have no idea how many times people have misspelled my name (I could give you a list of all sorts of different ways people can muddle up the name 'Julia' in their minds). And the fact I have a hard-to-spell, hard-to-pronounce German last name does not help.
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> Qua "Noelle" rtz

So familiar. For some reason people have a really hard time with Alissa. My married name is easy when people understand what I'm saying, but my maiden name is German and nobody could ever get that right. I got so sick of it that when I was 5 I told my parents I wanted to change my name to Linda Williams.

ali"I don't know where I came up with that name"ssa