In the multicultural world that we live in how do you know my name. Is my first name my last name? What is my family name and what should you call me. As web site developers we regularly ask people for their name so we can personalise the web, but are we using the correct name?

1. WHAT’S MY
NAME?
CIVICON LONDON 2013
BRIAN TEEMAN

2. I AM BRIAN TEEMAN
CO-FOUNDER JOOMLA
BASED IN THE UK
OR BA SEAT 10C
HELLO

3. NOT A CODER
NOT A DESIGNER
NOT A LEADER
WHAT IS BRIAN?

4. I TRAVEL THE WORLD
TALKING…
...AND TALKING…
... ABOUT MY LOVE
I AM LUCKY

6. WE BUILD
WEB SITES

7. WE NEED
YOUR NAME

11. Capturing a person’s name

13. • Click
to
edit
Master
text
styles

14. • Click
to
edit
Master
text
styles

15. SO WHAT?

17. WHAT’S MY
NAME?

18. Björk Guðmundsdóttir
Given
name
&
patronymic
Given
name You call her:
• Björk
• Björk Guðmundsdóttir
First
name Last
name
Father’s
name
B

19. WHAT’S MY
NAME?

20. 毛泽东
Mao Ze Dong
Different
order
of
parts
Family
name
Given
name
You call him:
• 毛泽东先生
Mao Ze Dong xiān shēng
• 泽东
Ze Dong xiān shēng
Genera>onal
name
毛泽民 Mao Ze Min
毛泽覃 Mao Ze Tan
毛泽紅 Mao Ze Hong
Fred Yao Ming
Fred Ming Yao
First
name Last
name

21. WHAT’S MY
NAME?

22. Different
order
of
parts
First
name Last
name
You call him:
• Mr Hung
• Mr Dinh
• Hung
• Dinh
Hung Dinh
Given
name Family
Name

23. María-Jose Carreño Quiñones
Mul>ple
family
names
Given
name
Family
name
from
Mother
You call her:
• Señorita Carreño
Family
name
from
Father
Antonio Carreño Rodríguez María Quiñones Marqués
de
First
name Last
name
Spanish family names would have the order paternal+maternal,
Portuguese names in Brazil would be maternal+paternal
C

24. WHAT’S MY
NAME?

25. Борис
Николаевич
Ельцин
Variant
word
forms
Given
name Father’s
name Family
name
male
Наина
Иосифовна
Ельцина
Given
name Father’s
name Family
name
female
First
name Last
name
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
Naina Iosifovna Yeltsina

26. WHAT’S MY
NAME?

27. Non
La>n
Characters
First
name Last
name
Nicholas Διονυσόπουλος
The'ohneeso'poolosh
Dionissopoulos
Dionysopoulos
ELOT standardisation

28. 東海林賢蔵
Ambiguity
in
wriFen
forms
You call him:
• Tōkairin Kenzo
• Shōji Kenzo
You call him:
• Shōji-san
東海林賢蔵
庄司賢蔵
庄子賢蔵
小路賢蔵
First
name Last
name
Family
name
Ideographic characters in Japanese names
can typically be pronounced in more than one way

29. WHAT’S MY
NAME?

30. Middle
Ini>als
First
name Last
name
First
name Last
nameIni-al
Brian
Guy
Joseph
TeemanBrian
G.
J.
Teeman

31. WHAT’S MY
NAME?

32. Only
Ini>als
First
name Last
name
Ini-al Last
nameIni-al
J.R.
Ewing

33. WHAT’S MY
NAME?

34. First
Ini>al
First
name Last
name
First
name Last
nameIni-al
J.
Edgar
Hoover

35. WHAT’S MY
NAME?

36. tussenvoegsels
First
name Last
name
Robin
van
Persie
First
name Last
nameInser-on
You call him:
• meneer Van Persie
• Robin van Persie
P All different in Belgium

38. Isa bin Osman
Inheritance
of
names
You call her:
• Mrs Zaiton
• Mrs Isa
Manuel Pérez Quiñones
Pedro Pérez Padilla Encarna Pérez Padilla
First
name Last
name
Given
name Father’s
name
‘son
of’
You call him:
• Mr. Isa
• Encik Isa
+ Zaiton
Spanish family names would have the order paternal+maternal,
Portuguese names in Brazil would be maternal+paternal
+ Maria Padilla Falto
Wife

39. Mixing
it
up
Aditya Pratap Singh Chauhan
SurnameFather’s
name
V. S. Achuthanandan
Caste
name
Town
name Caste
name
Madurai Mani Iyer
Given
name
First
name Last
name
Kerala
India
Rajasthani
India
Kogaddu Birappa Timappa Nair
Given
name
Village
name Father’s
name Given
name Last
name
Velikkakathu Sankaran Achuthanandan
Given
nameFamily
name Father’s
name

40. WHAT’S MY
NAME?

41. Muhammad
Changing
over
>me
First
name Last
name
al-Jamil ibn Nidal
ibn Abdulaziz al-Filistini
Muhammad
(given
name),
The
beau>ful,
Son
of
Nidal,
Son
of
Abdulaziz,
the
Pales>nian

42. WHAT’S MY
NAME?

43. Father
of
Karim,
First
name Last
name
Changing
over
>me
Muhammad al-Jamil ibn Nidal ibn
Abdulaziz al-Filistini
Abu Karim Muhammad al-Jamil ibn
Nidal ibn Abdulaziz al-Filistini
Muhammad
(given
name),
The
beau>ful,
Son
of
Nidal,
Son
of
Abdulaziz,
the
Pales>nian

44. WHAT’S MY
NAME?

45. Edison Arantes do Nascimento
Nicknames
and
such
First
name Last
name
You call him:
• Pelé

46. WHAT’S MY
NAME?

47. Capitalisa>ons
and
Case
First
name Last
name
Michael MacandrewMichael MaCandrewMichael MCandrewMichael McandrewMichael McAndrew
Don’t assume all names are capitalized
French often use all caps for family name
Toulouse LAUTREC

48. WHAT’S MY
NAME?

49. WHAT’S MY
NAME?

50. Single
name
First
name Last
name
Wookey
First
name

51. SO WHAT
DO I DO?

52. Recommenda>ons…
• Ask
yourself
whether
you
really
need
to
have
separate
fields
for
given
name
and
family
name
• Let
the
user
decide
how
to
write
their
name
• Make
input
fields
long
enough
to
enter
long
names.
TO SPLIT OR NOT

53. Recommenda>ons…
• Make
the
fields
op-onal
not
everyone
has
both
• Avoid
using
the
labels
‘first
name’
and
‘last
name’.
HOW TO SPLIT

54. Recommenda>ons…
• Let
the
user
decide.
SORTING

55. Recommenda>ons…
• Make
the
fields
op-onal
not
everyone
uses
a
-tle
• Only
use
it
if
you
need
it
and
it
is
relevant
• Maybe
you
need
to
have
a
pre
and
post
name.
TITLES

56. Recommenda>ons…
• Ask
separately
how
that
person
would
like
to
be
called
• Separate
formal
name
and
common
name
(nickname)
• Don’t
assume
the
parts
of
the
name
• Varying
expecta-ons
of
formality
around
the
world.
WHAT’S YOUR NAME

57. Recommenda>ons…
• Don’t
capitalise
a
name
leave
it
as
entered
• Don’t
restrict
to
Alpha
-­‐
allow
space
and
dash
• Don’t
restrict
to
ASCII
128
-­‐
allow
extended
• Don’t
make
all
fields
required
• Don’t
have
a
minimum
or
maximum
character
count.
INPUT RULES

58. Recommenda>ons…
• If
you
hope
to
get
La-n
or
ASCII-­‐only,
you
need
to
say
so.
LANGUAGE

59. Recommenda>ons…
• Are
you
collec-ng
the
person’s
name
just
to
have
an
iden-fier
in
your
system?
• Do
you
plan
to
call
them
by
name
in
their
language
but
track
them
in
your
back-­‐office
in
a
language
such
as
English
• You
may
want
to
ask
for
a
La-n
transcrip-on.
LANGUAGE 2

60. RICHARD
ISHIDA
Thanks to
TRYING TO MAKE THE
WORLD WIDE WEB
WORLD WIDE

61. MORE INFO
http://slideshare.net/
brianteem
Falsehoods Programmers
Believe About Names
http://goo.gl/AJuNW1
Personal names
around the world
http://goo.gl/3GTZeA