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1. You put your given name in first position and your family name in last position, only capitalizing the first letter of each name, not all the letters. Also, if your name is from an Asian language and employs a hyphen, the first letter after the hyphen isn't normally hyphenated, for example, we write the leader of North Korea's name "Kim Jong ...
Note that if you choose to write out your full name as "Sukumar Michael" because people call you Sukumar and your family is the Michael family, but your Indian passport follows the South Indian convention of putting the family name first and has you as "Michael Sukumar", then you may have some explaining to do should you ever choose to get an ...
Family name is the part of the name you share with your family, often called "last name" or "surname" in English (though that's less accurate since some cultures put the family name first). Name at birth would be your full-name on your birth certificate (usually the same unless you've changed your name).
3. Save this answer. Show activity on this post. (US English) In Case 1, the only one that is both correct and common is #4. In Case 2, the ones that are both correct and common are #1, #4, and #5. However, you would never use #5 unless you knew that Mr. Smith likes to be referred to in this way. Some people adopt their middle name as their ...
For example, in Latin America the full name would be like: Ana María Gómez Sánchez. In that case, "Gómez" is her dad's last name, and "Sánchez" is her mum's single last name. Let's pretend Ana María's dad's name is Gabriel Gómez Pérez. And her mum's name is Jessica Sánchez Flores. That way, Ana María gets both of those first last names.
In a full name listing, the suffix follows the last name because the person is primarily known by is given name and surname, the suffix being a secondary piece of information. When listing last name first, the given name follows the surname because that is how we sort: all the Does, then the Johns, and finally the Jr.s. The preferred form would be
If they use only first name, so do I. In cases where I am writing someone for the first time, if I know they are older I use Mr/Mrs/Ms. If they are not older, I will use Mr/Mrs/Ms and their family name. In cases where family name is not obvious – in cultures where the family name may be written ahead of the given name – I use the whole name.
Mr. is most typically used with either the man's last name alone, or last name and selected other parts of the name. But that is for polite society. In everyday use, it is often appended to the front of a simple first name to lend a small air of seriousness or respect to what otherwise would be a casual use of the first name alone.
Use initials in a personal name only if the name is commonly written that way. See Wikipedia: Manual of Style/Biographies for when to use full names and other formats. An initial is followed by a full point (period) and a space (e.g. J. R. R. Tolkien), unless: The person had or has a different, consistently preferred style for his or her own name.
Punctuation has slowly been lost. Oxford and Cambridge along with the new army guide forbid using any stop except a full stop. Places like the University of Sussex still encourage the formal use of initials with stops. Government offices and businesses encourage using a full first name and last name, ignoring formalities and full names.