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> What is your legally recognised name i.e. what's on your passport and official documents.

1) People can have multiple passports with different names.

2) a single passport can contain multiple names for the same person.

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What standard allows multiple aliases on one passport?

AFAIK, the MRZ and chip don’t support alias fields?

Russian passports contain a transliterated Latinized version, which also (usually?) omits the patronymic.

And now we need a "Falsehoods developers believe about passports" doc...

ICAO 9303, part 10, section 4.7.11, data group 11 allows for a list of other names.

You're making the parent's point. Why bother trying to model the entire concept of a "name"? Just have something to display on the screen (get the user to type it in and they can't complain when you display it back) and something to put on legal documents.

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