Diaeresis

[MauriceTheMussel]

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?

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

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

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

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

😂

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?

I think it will just get left off tbh!

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

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.

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.

Avoid!

It will get left off.

😆😆 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.

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

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.

Set your keyboard to a font/alphabet with other characters, Danish? My Polish friend sometimes uses my computer and changes the settings to get the Polish alphabet.

Miss read the post. Thought you were using it as a name! I was echoing what others said about diarrhoea 🤣

It's not a name, it's 2 dots above a letter eg to tell you Zoe is pronounced Zoey not Zo.

What do you want to do where it doesn’t get used? Is the plan for it not to be used at all, or for an e to go in? Eg if it was Müller (which I know would be an odd first name), would you prefer Muller or Mueller?

Most forms struggle with things like that, but just leave it off when you have to.

My daughter has an ó in her name and even her British passport wouldn't allow it

The name seems naked without it!

They're all out today. Call the baby Umlaut or Fada instead,
@MauriceTheMussel
Raphael is perfectly fine. It doesn't need a diaeresis.

Always a problem on computers

🤣

We decided not to bother as people would know how the name was pronounced without anyway and it would be a pain forever. Don't regret it.

I feel this might become a ‘classics’ thread with half of the people discussing diaeresis and the other half discussing whether diaeresis is an acceptable name 🤣🤣

I only clicked on this thread because I knew people would think it's a name...