absolutely. people who just hear it think it's "Maiden" and people who just read it think it sounds like "Madden".https://twitter.com/gavinoattes/status/1395258688739360771 …
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very few people I've met pronounced it "correctly" (i.e. the way my family pronounces it, which is correct, since it's our name) without hearing it first. @dessadarling is one of them, and when I said most got it wrong, she said "but it only has one D!" and I said "exactly!"