Oprah Winfrey is among those seeing Pete Buttigieg's name everywhere, now that the South Bend mayor has announced his candidacy for president.

And she, like many, is getting tripped up by its pronunciation.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, she said she is still surveying the field of Democrats who are running for president in 2020. But right now, she's reading Buttigieg's book, "Shortest Way Home" and has even mentioned the Hoosier candidate to Steven Spielberg.

"I call him Buttabeep, Buttaboop," Winfrey told The Hollywood Reporter. "The name's either going to really hurt or [really help] — I think it's going to help, actually." Sometimes, she says she just calls him "Butta."

Buttigieg's Maltese surname is actually pronounced "Boot-edge-edge."

Winfrey also mentioned researching California Sen. Kamala Harris, Beto O'Rourke and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker in the interview.

"I'm quietly figuring out where I'm going to use my voice in support," Winfrey said.

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In the past, Winfrey has endorsed former President Barack Obama and Stacey Abrams, who was the Democratic nominee for governor of Georgia in 2018. Abrams lost that election to Republican Brian Kemp, who Abrams accused of voter suppression.

Winfrey said at a rally for Abrams that she is a political independent who has "earned the right to think for myself and to vote for myself."

The Hollywood Reporter also asked Winfrey about her multi-year content partnership with Apple, in which they'll create "original programs that embrace her incomparable ability to connect with audiences around the world." Again, the conversation turned to Buttigieg.

"Last year, I would've wanted to sit down and have a conversation with Christine Blasey Ford. Right now, I'd probably want to sit down and talk to Butta," Winfrey told The Hollywood Reporter.

Buttigieg's popularity and name recognition have rocketed in recent weeks, thanks to strong polling numbers, a seemingly non-stop media blitz and exchanges with Vice President Mike Pence and other conservatives over his sexuality and religious faith.

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In an ABC News/Washington Post poll released April 28, five percent of Democrats or Democratic-leaning independents polled said they backed Buttigieg.

In the same poll, 17% of respondents indicated they supported Biden, and 11% said they would support Sanders. The poll's results had a margin of sampling error of 3.5 points.