diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index cb6880d..87e3b35 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ available extremely fast.
 - ranks addresses explicitly emailed by you higher
 - configurable output via go templates
 - uses the most frequent non-empty display name for each email
+- display name can be unicode normalized for search purposes
 - filters common "no reply" addresses, additional filters can be added via regexes
 - normalizes emails to lower case
 - ability to add additional email addresses from a command
@@ -76,6 +77,7 @@ Available keys:
 ```
 	Address
 	Name
+	NormalizedName: same as Name, but unicode normalized
 	Names
 	Class
 	FrequencyRank
@@ -139,7 +141,7 @@ addresses = [
 ]
 filters = ["@spam.(com|org)"]
 outputpath = "~/.mail/addressbook"
-template = "{{.Address}}\t{{.Name}}"
+template = "{{.Address}}\t{{.Name}}\t{{.NormalizedName}}"
 ```
 
 ## Integration
@@ -152,11 +154,18 @@ Put something like this in your aerc config (using your favourite grep):
 address-book-cmd="ugrep -jP -m 100 --color=never %s /home/[myuser]/.cache/maildir-rank-addr/addressbook.tsv"
 ```
 
-(`-j` is smart case insensitive, and needs to be combined with `-P` for UTF-8)
+(`-j` is smart case insensitive, and needs to be combined with `-P` for UTF-8).
+
+Since aerc only uses the first two of the tab separated columns any other
+column can be added to help with search or to combine with external tools. For
+example adding `NormalizedName` as the third column will allow you to type
+"arpad", and still find and use the entry for "Árpád X" who uses accents in his
+name properly, and "Arpad Y" who conformed to ASCII for some reason.
 
 Note that `address-book-cmd` is not executed in the shell, so you need to hard
 code the path without shell expansion.
 
+
 # Behind the scenes
 
 ## Ranking
diff --git a/data.go b/data.go
index 3e01c3a..0cb43ab 100644
--- a/data.go
+++ b/data.go
@@ -7,15 +7,16 @@ import (
 )
 
 type AddressData struct {
-	Address       string
-	Names         []string
-	Class         int
-	FrequencyRank int
-	RecencyRank   int
-	TotalRank     int
-	ClassCount    [3]int
-	ClassDate     [3]int64
-	Name          string
+	Address        string
+	Names          []string
+	Class          int
+	FrequencyRank  int
+	RecencyRank    int
+	TotalRank      int
+	ClassCount     [3]int
+	ClassDate      [3]int64
+	Name           string
+	NormalizedName string
 }
 
 type Config struct {
diff --git a/ranking.go b/ranking.go
index b8b7022..2470456 100644
--- a/ranking.go
+++ b/ranking.go
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ package main
 import (
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
+	"unicode"
+
+	"golang.org/x/text/transform"
+	"golang.org/x/text/unicode/norm"
 )
 
 func getMostFrequent(names []string) string {
@@ -31,11 +35,18 @@ func getMostFrequent(names []string) string {
 	return lastname
 }
 
+func isMn(r rune) bool {
+	return unicode.Is(unicode.Mn, r) // Mn: nonspacing marks
+}
+
 func normalizeAddressNames(aD AddressData) AddressData {
 	if aD.Name != "" {
 		return aD
 	}
 	aD.Name = getMostFrequent(aD.Names)
+	t := transform.Chain(norm.NFD, transform.RemoveFunc(isMn), norm.NFC)
+	normStr, _, _ := transform.String(t, aD.Name)
+	aD.NormalizedName = normStr
 	return aD
 }