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Baby name error on birth certificate found after 15 years

By Jo Abi|

A woman who discovered a glaring error on her birth certificate has shared the mistake on TikTok, calling out her parents over the glitch.

Gabby Mayor who shares videos at @gabbbbb16? took a careful look at her birth certificate when she was 15 and noticed her name Gabrielle had been spelled with a 'B' instead of a 'G' making it Babrielle.

"Thinking about how my parents made a typo on my birth certificate and I didn't find out until age 15 that my real name is actually Babrielle," she wrote in text overlay accompanying the video.

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Gabby shared the video on TikTok calling her parents out for the error. (TikTok)

Gabby's video has been viewed 2.2 million times by amused TikTokers with many of her followers sharing their own stories about misspelled names.?

"My mum misspelled my name actually supposed to be Sonya not Sanya ," one shared.

"My legal name is Kristen but I have always spelt it Kristin and pronounce it Kristine. I didn't know my name was Kristen until I moved out at 16," another said.

Another shared: "My parents didn't notice my brother's birth certificate had the wrong birthday till he was like 6. Way too late to fix it so now he has 2 birthdays ."

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Other TikTokers shared similar stories of misspelled names. (Getty)

"Same thing happened to me. Raised as Taelor only to find out at 18 I'm actually Tealor," one TikToker said.

"Babrielle goes hard tho," one commented.

"The way I would own this and call myself Barbie," another suggested.

One woman shared: ?"Yes way my name is C-hole, coal, chole กช however you want to pronounce it."

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A user suggested she 'own' the mistake and call herself 'Barbie.' (TikTok/Getty)

"My friends legal name was baby girl Williams because her name was not decided at the time. Til she was like 12," another shared.

"My um told me for like 12 years my name was spelled Lilianna but on my birth certificate it's Liliana," said another.

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