In Virginia, your entity name must be written in English letters and Arabic (“123”) or Roman (“MMXXII”) numbers. It may also include certain common characters such as periods, commas, colons, apostrophes, parentheses, dashes, question marks, exclamation points, and certain other characters such as @, #, $, %, &, and *. For a full list of acceptable letters, please see the Virginia SCC’s Business Entity Names FAQ page.