This article explores the personal impact of mispronounced names, using the author’s own experience as a point of reference. It highlights how name mispronunciation can be a form of microaggression, reflecting a larger societal issue of code-switching and the pressure to conform to dominant cultural norms. The author shares her father’s story of choosing a more ‘white-sounding’ name to avoid discrimination and how this decision ultimately affected her own sense of identity.