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This is how I pronounce my own name when speaking English.

If you're adding me to a list of names, please use this name.

This is the name I want to be addressed by during a conversation.

Please use this name when adding my name to an address in a formal context. For example, on an envelope.

I use this name in formal contexts. For example, a letter addressed to me might start 'Dear Paul'.

There are some circumstances in which you might hear people using these variants of my personal name. Please don't use them except in those circumstances.

If you use these variants of my name I won't mind, but they're not names I enjoy being called.

Please don't use these variants of my name.

To speak about a person in English, you don't need to know their gender but you do need to know which pronouns to use. This information can't be determined from a person's name or what they look like, so we include it on everyone's page.