How are people supposed to say it? Meee-sha or M-isha? I would base the spelling on that. It's going to drive her crazy if no one ever says her name right. I'm so tired of my last name because it's spelled with an 'oe' but you pronounce it as an 'a'. Long story short, if you are German and move to the US during the first World War you just change the pronunciation of your name and you're not German anymore If my first name was spelled differently than it was suppose to be pronounced I would go crazy, probably change my name eventually. Luckily I'm female so my last name is easy to change, yay!