My family name is one of those "want to buy a vowel?" Hungarian names, lots of exra consonents, etc.

I usualliy give the name "Ski" when doing the restaurant thing. And, oddly enough, the majority of the time the hostess calls "SKY" - even though it's spelled SKI in the waitlist.

Of course they ask if that's correct, and I have to comment, when you put two boards on your feet and go down a snowy hill, are you going snow skying???

And so it goes...