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Diaeresis

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MauriceTheMussel · 13/10/2025 11:08

Any experience with a name with diaeresis, please? Is it a pain on forms? Does a passport exclude them etc?

Secondly, would it be “correct” to have diaeresis on Raphael?

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DiscoBob · 13/10/2025 11:30

It sounds like a cross between diaohrea and dialysis? Horrible sounding and I don't think it is actually a name is it? It sounds totally made up like a pound shop Game of Thrones knock off.

HostaCentral · 13/10/2025 11:29

No-one will understand what the dots mean anyway in terms of pronunciation, so they are not useful in any way. Don't bother.

Raphael is a lovely name. I would pronounce in the Italian, but that's due to my heritage. How do you want it to be pronounced?

I would say Raf-ai-el

KnightandDay · 13/10/2025 11:28

RaraRachael · 13/10/2025 11:13

Never heard of it before. Sounds too much like diarrhoea for it to be a name.

😆😆 I thought the same thing momentarily... you just never know on MN baby names forum!

I have an accented letter in my name and rarely have any issues, but sometimes just have to leave it off on forms. It's not a big deal.

GoldDuster · 13/10/2025 11:27

It will get left off.

DominosForDinner · 13/10/2025 11:26

Avoid!

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 13/10/2025 11:24

Many forms don't have the facility for it, so I'd only have a name with diaeresis if it wasn't absolutely essential to the pronunciation - ie, if there was another very similar name and the diaeresis was the difference between them. If the name is well enough known, then you don't need it.

APatternGrammar · 13/10/2025 11:22

It’s not a pain for Zoë, in that it doesn’t cause actual issues, but it will get left out a lot so you have to think about whether that will annoy you.
Loving the people who think that’s a name.

ninjahamster · 13/10/2025 11:22

My daughter has one. Always been used with no issues.

babyproblems · 13/10/2025 11:22

I think it will just get left off tbh!

W0tnow · 13/10/2025 11:18

😂

My daughter is Zoe. I deliberately didn’t have one. People know how to say her name as it’s common enough. Is the name you’re considering commonly known?

ComfortFoodCafe · 13/10/2025 11:17

Sounds to much like diarrhoea, that poor kid will have the piss taken out of them at school. Dont do it.

IslaVarran · 13/10/2025 11:17

I have one, and it doesn't get used on forms or legal documents.

ShenandoahRiver · 13/10/2025 11:15

@RaraRachael
It’s not a name. It’s the name for 2 dots over a vowel.

RaraRachael · 13/10/2025 11:13

Never heard of it before. Sounds too much like diarrhoea for it to be a name.

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