TITLE: Misspelling my name on my mathematical publications
QUESTION [18 upvotes]: Perpetuating a mistake by my thesis advisor, I misspelt my name on my mathematical publications so far -- any advice on what to do?
As it happens, my thesis advisor, with whom I co-authored my first paper, 
misspelt my last name on that paper. He then approved the page proofs. For this reason, on that paper, my name reads 
Leyli Jafari Taghvasani instead of Leyli Jafari Taghvastani.
In the sequel, in order to have all my publications under the same name, he advised me to stick
to the wrong spelling of my name, and publish all my papers under the name Leyli Jafari Taghvasani
instead of Leyli Jafari Taghvastani. I followed his advice, and published already
some more papers under my misspelt name: JafariTaghvasaniZarrin2017,
JafariTaghvasaniZarrin2018, JafariTaghvasaniMarzangZarrin2018,
JafariTaghvasaniKohl2019.
My question is: what is the best way to deal with this situation?

REPLY [11 votes]: I think the concern about having all your papers be listed together on professional databases like MathSciNet and ZBMath, while real, is more minor than the current answers make it seem. The key point to remember is:
99% of people looking up your publications will use Google or another search engine to do so.
Since search engines are extremely good at correcting these sorts of minor typos, the solution is therefore quite simple. The main things you need to do are:

Start publishing under your name as it is correctly spelled.
Set up a personal home page where you have an easily accessible and well-formatted list of publications, with links to the papers’ final versions and/or arXiv versions, and keep that home page up to date and alive (if you move institutions, set up a redirect from the older page, etc).
Add a small note on that page explaining that your first few papers were published with a variant spelling of your name.

Steps 1 and 2 are actually things that any early-career mathematician should do, and are much more important than fidgeting over how MathSciNet thinks your name is spelled.
The advice to contact MathSciNet and other databases and ask them to link the publications listed under the different spellings of your name is generally good, but, if you follow the steps I am suggesting, whether they will do what you are asking or not will, in my opinion, have an altogether negligible effect on your career success.