Guidance
How to show uncommon names in passports: caseworker guidance
Tells HM Passport Office staff how to show uncommon names in passports.
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This guidance tells HM Passport Office staff how to show uncommon names in passports, including:
- when there is a naming convention (for example, cultural traditions that say how a name must be shown)
- Welsh names that have ‘ap surname’ (son of)
- Irish and Gaelic names that customers have translated into English
- names that include ‘Junior’ prefixes or suffixes
- stage, professional and religious names
- when the customer only has 1 name
- names that include titles as part of the actual name (for example, ‘Sir David Jones’ where ‘Sir’ is the customer’s forename’)
Published 23 June 2023