History Main / AccidentalMisnaming

* The ''Frozen'' example is given a ShoutOut in ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}''. Here, the guy's ''actually'' called Duke Weaselton (because he's a WickedWeasel with SpeciesSurname)...and Judy calls him Weselton.

If the misnaming is a one-off incident in an emotional moment, it's WrongNameOutburst. If TheFool genuinely'' thinks'' Person B is someone else, it's ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity. If the name change is intentional, see SignificantNameShift. If it's specifically about Santa Claus' reindeer, see DasherDancerPrancerAndNixon. For out-of-universe examples, see ViewerNameConfusion.

* When ''Film/{{Napoleon}}'' gives his name to Pichegru in a Corsican accent, the latter mishears it as "Paille-au-nez" (straw-in-the-nose).

* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': Bunnies (that is, [[FanCommunityNicknames EGS fans]]) do this sort of thing a lot on the forum. The most common seems to be calling Susan "Sarah" or Sarah "Susan".
** In universe [[AlphaBitch Diane]] calls Justin "Jason" at one point, but this is more of a reflection of her [[GoldDigger general view of men]], and being gay Justin isn't any use to her. After she TookALevelInKindness, she apologises for her previous comments, but ''still'' calls him Jason.
--->'''Justin''': Uh, hi? It's "Justin" actually.\\
'''Diane''': Oh God I'm the actual worst.

* [[WebVideo/AitorMolinaVs Aitor Molina]] plays a lot with that to the point you don't know if he's joking or not.

* People mix up Vex'ahlia and Vax'ildan from ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'' all the time, to the point where Creator/{{Liam|OBrien}} and Creator/{{Laura|Bailey}} had shirts made to distinguish them. Even Gilmore - who pretty obviously [[HoYay has a thing for Vax]] - addresses him as "Vax'ahlia" at one point.

* In ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'', Marik Ishtar's evil half, Melvin, likes to do this. He consistently refers to Joey as Susan, and later tells the Pharaoh, 'I'm your boyfriend now, Nancy.'

* In ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', Krillin keeps calling Dende "Little Green", almost making it a CatchPhrase for Dende to say "My name is Dende." Dende ultimately gets so pissed off he tells Freeza about Earth ''because'' Krillin keeps calling him that. When Dende becomes Kami of Earth, Dende ''finally'' has enough of Krillin's BS and beats him to force him to say his name.
** Speaking of Freeza, it's also something of a CatchPhrase for him to reply "My name is ''Lord Freeza'', yes." whenever someone gets his name wrong. This includes Goku calling him "Freezer" and Trunks calling him "Frieza" (pronounced "Fry-za")

** ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'': Kingpin called Electro "Elektra". She also works for him, but not in this story yet.

* In ''Film/Godzilla1998'' people had trouble with Nick Tatopoulos' surname.

* In ''Film/{{Transformers|2007}}'', Mikaela and Simmons each get Sam Witwicky's surname wrong when they try to say it. Mikaela says it as "Wilkicky" and Simmons says it as "Wickity", even after Sam's father Ron corrects him.

* In ''Film/Transformers2007'', Mikaela and Simmons each get Sam Witwicky's surname wrong when they try to say it. Mikaela says it as "Wilkicky" and Simmons says it as "Wickity", even after Sam's father Ron corrects him.

* In ''Film/{{Transformers}}'', Mikaela and Simmons each get Sam Witwicky's surname wrong when they try to say it. Mikaela says it as "Wilkicky" and Simmons says it as "Wickity", even after Sam's father Ron corrects him.

* Mike Adamle botched Jeff Hardy's name at the 2008 Royal Rumble (Adamle's first day on the job), calling him "Jeff Harvey". It becomes HilariousInHindsight when you learn/remember that Jeff was a jobber for WWF in the mid-1990's, wrestling as Jeff Harvey.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': When Mr. Incredible meets Buddy, he calls him "Brody".

* In ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'', every time Rin says [[RepetitiveName Sasasegawa Sasami]]'s name she manages to mess it up in some way, usually by saying something that sounds ''vaguely'' similar. The name ''is'' a mouthful, but only Rin, [[NotGoodWithPeople with a general lack of care about other people]] [[UnknownRival and Sasami in particular]] consistently gets it wrong.

* Following the South Carolina Gamecocks' victory in the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship in 2022, sports journalist Holly Rowe attempted to personally introduce Aliyah Boston during the trophy presentation, only to accidentally call her Aliyah Edwards. This led to her saying the correct name repeatedly and apollogizing to her for the mistake.

* A newspaper accidentally called German politician Björn Höcke "Bernd", perhaps because there is another prominent member of his party, the AFD, named Bernd Lucke. Höcke publicly made a fuss about it, and [[AcceptablePoliticalTargets with him being a politician, and a right-wing extremist on top of that,]] the ''Series/HeuteShow'' and other satiricists started [[MaliciousMisnaming intentionally calling him "Bernd Höcke"]], to the point where a lot of serious media and even fellow politicians, ''even other AFD members'', have begun calling him that.

* Fara Bryer from ''Webcomic/Rain2010'' constantly gets Jessica's name wrong, much to the latter's annoyance.

* ''Animation/HappyHeroes 3: The Stones'': A policeman sees Happy Superman and gets his name wrong five times, "Puppy Superman", "Slippy Superman", "Lippy Superman", "Dippy Superman", and "Peppy Superman". The robber the policeman apprehended tries to get his name right as well, but he fails, "Sloppy Superman", before Happy S. just tells him his name.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'': Lightning once accidentally calls his coworker "Chuck".

* Website/SCPFoundation has [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3049 SCP-3049]] ("To Make an Apple Pie from Scratch"), an oven that, when its center dial is set to "Apple Pie", will create a miniature universe with an accelerated timeline similar to that used in ''Series/Cosmos'', except that the universe (designated SCP-3049-1) always succumbs to GreyGoo and then turns into an edible apple pie. It was recovered by Agent Rembrandt Anderson from a Mrs. Taylor who referred to him as "John", "Kevin", "Jacob", and "Brian" while he was interviewing her.

* Fara Bryer from ''Webcomic/Rain2010'' constantly gets Jessica's name wrong much to the latter's annoyance.

* In ''Film/TheBucketList'', Jack Nicholson's character, Edward Cole, has a habit of calling his subordinates whatever name(s) he prefers; the way he acts, you'd ''think'' it was accidental if it weren't shown clearly that he ''does'' know their real name (making this a subversion). It's not MaliciousMisnaming because it's not a variation of their real name or meant as an insulting or bullying tactic. He basically acts as if their real name is immaterial.
-->'''Ed:''' Do you know what a philistine is, Joe?\\

* In ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', TheCameo of Creator/StanLee has him deliver a package to a "mister Tony 'Stank'".
* The school principal in ''Film/Carrie1976'' calls Carrie White "Cassie Wright" [[RuleOfThree three times]], even while Miss Collins is correcting him. This causes Carrie to correct him in an outburst that ([[HowDoIShotWeb subconsciously]]) breaks his ashtray though her nascent telekinesis.
* ''Film/{{Cheaper By The Dozen|2003}}'': Tom gets Mark's name wrong twice throughout the film. Both times, Mark corrected him. The second time Tom corrects himself.

* In ''Film/DarkShadows'', some hippies accidentally call Victoria "Veronica" and start [[CopycatMockery mimicking her]] when she says, "It's Victoria".
* In ''Film/DieHardWithAVengeance'', John first hears Zeus's name when a local boy says "Hey, Zeus!" John consequently mistakes his name for Jesús, which sounds very similar. Zeus is angered and asks if he looks Mexican.