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How to show uncommon names in passports: caseworker guidance

Tells HM Passport Office staff how to show uncommon names in passports.

• From: HM Passport Office
• Published: 23 June 2023
• Last updated: 9 April 2025 바카라 사이트� See all updates

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Names: 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 바카라 사이트榓p surname바카라 사이트� (son of)
• Irish and Gaelic names that customers have translated into English
• names that include 바카라 사이트楯unior바카라 사이트� 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, 바카라 사이트楽ir David Jones바카라 사이트� where 바카라 사이트楽ir바카라 사이트� is the customer바카라 사이트檚 forename바카라 사이트�)

Published 23 June 2023

Last updated 9 April 2025 + show all updates

1. 9 April 2025

   This guidance has been updated to remove instructions telling HM Passport Office staff to refuse an application which has a name subject to trademark or copyright laws.

2. 23 June 2023

   First published.