The name of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and the famous French museum, the Louvre, are among the words Americans most mispronounce in 2025, according to findings by the language-learning company Babbel and closed-captioning company The Captioning Group.

On Thursday, they released the list of words that news anchors, politicians, and other public figures in the U.S. struggled with the most this year, according to the Associated Press.

Mamdani's last name was most commonly mispronounced when people swapped the “M” and “N” in his last name, according to Babbel.

Mamdani said he doesn’t mind if someone tries to pronounce his name correctly and gets it wrong, but that some people mispronounce it intentionally. During one mayoral race debate, he rebuked former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s pronunciation of his name, telling him, “The name is Mamdani. M-A-M-D-A-N-I.”

The high-profile theft of France’s crown jewels from the Louvre Museum in Paris in October had resulted in people mispronouncing the name of the most-visited museum in the world. Babbel said the correct pronunciation is LOOV-ruh, with a very soft pronunciation of the “ruh,” which can be difficult for English speakers.

“A lot of these words come from different languages, and so we have to adapt to a sound that we’ve never made before,” Esteban Touma said, who is a Babbel linguistic and cultural expert.

Other words and names that made the list include acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, which is pronounced uh-SEE-tuh-MIH-nuh-fen; Alex Murdaugh, the South Carolina attorney who was sentenced to life in prison for the 2021 fatal shootings of his wife and son, is pronounced AL-ick MUR-dock; and Mounjaro, pronounced mown-JAHR-OH, which is one of the diabetes and obesity medications that have become popular.