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Your Name Is Invalid!

@yournameisinvalid.bsky.social

names of people cannot be invalid • boosting screenshots of #uxfail forms suggesting the contrary • hints/mentions appreciated also known on Mastodon as mas.to/@yournameisinvalid

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Your Name Is Invalid! @yournameisinvalid.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

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Juan Luis @juanlu.space · 09/09/2025

I've been fighting with Miles & More (@lufthansa.bsky.social & friends) because they won't account for miles on a flight. Reason: The name I have in Miles & More is: Cano Rodríguez, Juan Luis (2 surnames). The name in the LOT booking is Cano, Juan Luis. 🤦🏻 cc @yournameisinvalid.bsky.social

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Halloweeno @vimtotime.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I don’t know where to go from here.

My name typed into a “First Name” field and a note in red saying First Name is invalid

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Martin Jönsson-Niedziółka @jonsson-niedziolka.pl · 27/11/2024

Filling out a form on an Elsevier journal and apparently my name is not ”valid”. There really must be a less patronising way to express that your form sucks, @elsevierconnect.bsky.social! #ThereAreMoreThan26Letters

A screenshot of a form with
Author name
Martin Jönsson-Niedziółka
and a text in red that demands "Enter a valid name". I have marked this with a red arrow.
A radio button under the text is marked with Corresponding author

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Jernej Simončič � @jernej--s.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 27/11/2024

Hetzner is telling me that @yournameisinvalid…

Hetzner registration form, showing "This value is not valid" under the Surname field

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Priyanca a11y 🌈 @priyanca.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

'Please enter the English name on your selected ID.' 🤨 'Names cannot include special characters' Fun 🙃 just trying to buy a train season ticket with my real name haha

Photo of form fields in an online form purchasing a triangle ticket of given name, then surname. Red text reads 'Please enter the English name on your selected ID. Names cannot include special characters'

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Vianne Waßmann @lesemiez.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Wenn Du bei Patreon ein Sonderzeichen im Namen hast. Tjanun.

Mein Name aus den Credits eines von mir unterstützten Creators. Das scharfe S im Nachnamen wird mittels UTF-8-Zeichensatz dargestellt und dementsprechend durch ÃŸ ersetzt.

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Morgana D'Almeida @morganadalmeida.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Friendly reminder: Do 👏 not 👏 validate 👏 name 👏 fields 👏 I share this pet peeve with @egler.bsky.social and he just shared this amazing gem by Jan Stępień wtf-8.xn--stpie-k0a81a.com #uxpattern #development #frontend

wtf-8.xn--stpie-k0a81a.com

charset=“wtf-8”

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Luke 🏳️‍🌈✈️ @lukeacl.com · 15/11/2024

The way this winds me up... That's my fucking name, WITH the hyphen.

Form validation error showing my name with a hyphen in it as invalid because it "must be only letters and spaces".

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 17/11/2024

They'd love to hear from you. Unless you're called Robin-Yann Storm.

A form saying 'We'd love to hear from you'. I have filled in my name 'Robin-Yann Storm', and it says my name is invalid.

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