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The 13 most commonly misspelled names

• Written by Eric Higgins

What do Warren Buffett, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Muhammad Ali, and Robert De Niro have in common?

They’re the reigning champions of misspelled names on the internet. What else could it be?

TripleChecker analyzed tens of thousands of websites for typos and identified the top 13 names most frequently misspelled.

Each of these names was found with errors on at least 20 different websites. And in one case, a single name was misspelled on over 1,000 websites. Care to guess who?

The full list is below.

Misspelled on >1,000 websites:

  • Warren Buffett

Misspelled on >100 websites:

  • Hillary Clinton
  • Barack Obama

Misspelled on >50 websites:

  • Muhammad Ali
  • Robert De Niro
  • Barbra Streisand
  • Leonardo da Vinci

Misspelled on >20 websites:

  • Hans Christian Andersen
  • Sam Elliott
  • Glenn Miller
  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Hilary Swank
  • Hilary Duff

Just be glad that you’re not one of these folks, having to go through life correcting your name all the time.

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