Name rules?

[babymango]

My family is french canadian but temporarily living in Minnesota.  We will be going back home at some point in 2011.  I would like to give my daughter a french name but Im not sure if choosing a name with an accent (like é) is an option in this country (she will be born here, hopefully any day now!).  How much trouble would that give us with paperwork/birth certificates and such? 

[camprunner]

I would think that it is. I teach school and frequently have students who have accent marks in their names.

[RoseRedHoofbeats]

It's fine! She'll probably have a hell of a time getting people to spell and say it right (people can't even spell Gwendolynn with two N's *rolls eyes*) but there's no legal problems at all.

~Rose

[finnegansmom]

Unless the person doing the actual data entry knows how to input the accents, then it won't appear on the any computer printed cards, etc.

legally you can do it, but I would get used to seeing the name without the accent.

[babymango]

I don't mind the consequences down the line, as we'll be back in Montreal in 6 months, where accent marks are really no big deal.  I just wanted to make sure that I could include one in her official name on her birth certificate.  I had come across a website about birth certificate in a specific state that said you can't have any foreign characters.  Can't remember which state though.  Maybe I'd better ask in my tribe, but the answers here so far are encouraging!