<story><title>My name causes an issue with any booking</title><url>https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/149323/my-name-causes-an-issue-with-any-booking-names-end-with-mr-and-mrs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deathanatos</author><text>I have a suffix (the Roman numeral Ⅳ), and it causes all sorts of problems. Some sites will have me &amp;quot;prove&amp;quot; that I&amp;#x27;m me by asking questions about &amp;quot;my&amp;quot; credit history, and very often I&amp;#x27;ll get my father&amp;#x27;s. Half the time I&amp;#x27;ve already supplied a SSN… which makes it even more appalling that they can&amp;#x27;t get this right.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve also been issued a driver&amp;#x27;s license for a &amp;quot;4TH&amp;quot;. I have no idea how TSA would ever spot a fake. (Since they don&amp;#x27;t flag me! But I&amp;#x27;m also in a demographic that tends to get passes in the security theatre…)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>packet_nerd</author><text>My wife is from Myanmar, where most people only have one name (no first, last, etc.) and has experienced endless frustration since immigrating here to the US. It&amp;#x27;s been quite difficult for her and even limiting in some ways and she&amp;#x27;s broken down in tears more than once.&lt;p&gt;Some places just put a few letters into each field (like say for the name Jessica, first: Jes, middle: si, last: ca, or something like that). The DMV did that, and then listed her name on her license as &amp;lt;last&amp;gt;\&amp;lt;first&amp;gt; &amp;lt;middle initial&amp;gt;. Others have insisted on putting &amp;quot;nosurname&amp;quot; in the last name field. The immigration people put &amp;quot;FNU&amp;quot; as first name, and her given name in the last. At some places she&amp;#x27;s put her name twice, once in the first, and once in the last.&lt;p&gt;Not anything close to what she&amp;#x27;s had to endure, but my name doesn&amp;#x27;t fit the standard mold either. I prefer to use my middle name and really dislike using my first name (shared whith my dad, who I don&amp;#x27;t have a good relationship with). I&amp;#x27;m endlessly having to explain every single stinking time I interact with pretty much anyone.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, the take away is, please please please (!!!) don&amp;#x27;t make assumptions about people&amp;#x27;s names! Ideally just one field labeled &amp;quot;name&amp;quot;, and let the user interpret that as they see fit. If you need to collect a legal name then you need to validate it anyway. If you really must do first name &amp;#x2F; last name then at least make the last optional and also include a field for &amp;quot;what should we call you&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;nick name&amp;quot; or something.&lt;p&gt;Great ted talk about Myanmar names: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ted.com&amp;#x2F;talks&amp;#x2F;cynthia_ma_shwe_sin_win_not_good_with_names_local_name_customs_in_a_global_village&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ted.com&amp;#x2F;talks&amp;#x2F;cynthia_ma_shwe_sin_win_not_good_w...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>My name causes an issue with any booking</title><url>https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/149323/my-name-causes-an-issue-with-any-booking-names-end-with-mr-and-mrs</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>deathanatos</author><text>I have a suffix (the Roman numeral Ⅳ), and it causes all sorts of problems. Some sites will have me &amp;quot;prove&amp;quot; that I&amp;#x27;m me by asking questions about &amp;quot;my&amp;quot; credit history, and very often I&amp;#x27;ll get my father&amp;#x27;s. Half the time I&amp;#x27;ve already supplied a SSN… which makes it even more appalling that they can&amp;#x27;t get this right.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve also been issued a driver&amp;#x27;s license for a &amp;quot;4TH&amp;quot;. I have no idea how TSA would ever spot a fake. (Since they don&amp;#x27;t flag me! But I&amp;#x27;m also in a demographic that tends to get passes in the security theatre…)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sargram01</author><text>I have a hyphen in my last name that caused the California DMV to make one of my last names a middle name, and the Social Security Administration can’t verify my name on their website also due to it.&lt;p&gt;I feel like it’s time software needs to level up, ok 30 years ago sure mistakes were made, but now if you live on planet earth you have to know how names work after how many thousands of years our current systems have been in place.</text></comment>