Tool
Your name in braille
Type any name and see it as braille cells, with every letter broken down and the dot numbers written out.
Your name will appear here as braille cells.
Names are always Grade 1
Names are written uncontracted, letter by letter, even in a Grade 2 document. A contraction inside a name would change how it is read — "Ben" is not "But-e-n" — so proper nouns are spelled out.
The first letter takes a capital sign, dot 6, placed immediately before it. A name in full capitals takes two capital signs before the word.
If it is going on jewellery
Count the cells before you order. Names run longer in braille than people expect, because the capital sign is an extra cell that does not correspond to any printed letter. The bracelet maker lays this out as a bead pattern.