That’s a good story, Can are pretty interesting.
It’s ダモ in Japanese, which in English sounds like the ‘da’ sound from ‘dagger’ and the ‘mo’ sound from ‘mokasine’, if that makes sense.
On the subject of saying names wrong, many moons ago I once had to spend a few days in hospital in Japan. There was a nurse that was assigned to look after me (she could speak good English). I’m really bad with names (forget them straight away in any language) but this time I thought I’d make a special effort to remember her name.
Before I went in for my stay we had a meeting so she could explain everything that was going to happen. She introduced herself as Chigusa. I kept saying it over and over and over in my head and tried to use it at any opportunity. ‘Yes Chigusa’, ‘I understand Chigusa’, etc… When she had finished talking to me I said ’Thanks Chigusa’. When we said our goodbyes, of course I said ‘Bye Chigusa’.
When Chigusa had got out of earshot my wife (Japanese) looked at me with a... you’re such and idiot kind of face and said ‘Why did you keep calling her that the whole time?’, I replied ‘That was her name'. ’No it wasn’t’ she said. ‘Well, what was I calling her then?’. ‘You kept calling her chibusa’. ‘What does chibusa mean?’. ‘Breast’...
I learnt a new word that day and I’ve never pronounced Chigusa (a fairly common girls name here) wrong again.