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I agree, a "how should we address you field" is ideal. I'd like to add though that in case you might have to call them at some point, maybe ask them for a trans

• a-priori 12y ago
  Yes, that's the correct solution for asking for a name. As an example of this, as a side project I'm building an app for my wife (or other teachers) to collect assignments from her high school students and mark their work. In this case, there are separate fields to ask teachers "What name do other teachers call you?" and "What name do students call you?". Both are single, free form text fields that take any UTF-8 text of a reasonable length. This is especially important for the school environment because the same teacher might be "Joe Schmoe" to other teachers, and "Mr. Schmoe" to students. I also know of some women who married and changed their name, but still use their maiden name with students. Other teachers are casual with their students and have them use their first name. If they teach a Judo class at the school, they might want to be called something like "Sensei Joe". At any rate, each use case for a person's name should be asked separately, and used verbatim -- without trying to break them up at all.