Bij het spellen van namen tijdens telefoongesprekken is het handig om het officiële alfabet te gebruiken.
| Nederland | België | Duitsland | Frankrijk | Groot Brittanië | USA | Internationaal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | Anna | Arthur | Anton | Anatole | Arthur | Able | Amsterdam |
| Ä | - | - | Ärger | - | - | - | - |
| B | Bernard | Bruxelles | Berta | Berthe | Bernard | Baker | Baltimore |
| C | Cornelis | Caroline | Cäsar | Célestin | Charles | Charlie | Casablanca |
| Ch | - | - | Charlotte | - | - | - | - |
| D | Dirk | Désiré | Dora | Désiré | Dorothy | Dog | Danemark |
| E | Eduard | Emile | Emil | Eugène | Elisabeth | Easy | Edison |
| F | Ferdinand | Frédéric | Friedrich | François | Frank | Fox | Florida |
| G | Gerard | Gustave | Gustav | Gaston | George | George | Gallipoli |
| H | Hendrik | Henri | Heinrich | Henri | Henry | How | Havana |
| I | Izaäk | Isidore | Ida | Irena | Isabel | Item | Italia |
| J | Jan | Joseph | Julius | Joseph | John | Jig | Jérusalem |
| K | Karel | Kilogramme | Kaufmann | Klébert | Kathleen | King | Kilogramme |
| L | Lodewijk | Léopold | Ludwig | Louis | Liverpool | Love | Liverpool |
| M | Marie | Marie | Martha | Marcel | Margaret | Mike | Madagaskar |
| N | Nico | Napoléon | Nordpol | Nicolas | Nancy | Nan | New York |
| O | Otto | Oscar | Otto | Oscar | Olive | Oboe | Oslo |
| Ö | - | - | Ökonom | - | - | - | - |
| P | Pieter | Piano | Paula | Pierre | Philip | Peter | Paris |
| Q | Quotiënt | Quiévrain | Quelle | Quintal | Question | Queen | Quebéc |
| R | Rudolf | Robert | Richard | Raoul | Rupert | Roger | Roma |
| S | Simon | Suzanne | Samuel | Suzanne | Susan | Sugar | Santiago |
| Sch | - | - | Schule | - | - | - | - |
| T | Teunis | Téléphone | Theodor | Thérèse | Tom | Tare | Tripolo |
| U | Utrecht | Ursule | Ulrich | Ursule | Ulysses | Uncle | Uppsala |
| Ü | - | - | Übermut | - | - | - | - |
| V | Victor | Victor | Viktor | Victor | Victory | Victor | Valencia |
| W | Willem | Waterloo | Wilhelm | William | William | William | Washington |
| X | Xantippe | Xavier | Xantippe | Xavier | Xylophone | X-ray | Xantippe |
| IJ | IJmuiden | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Y | Ypsilon | Yvonne | Ypsilon | Yvonne | Yankee | Yoke | Yokohama |
| Z | Zaandam | Zéro | Zacharias | Zoé | Zinnia | Zebra | Zürich |