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Overview You do not have to follow a legal process to start using a new name. Print entire guide. Related content Change the name or gender on your driving licence Change your name or personal details on your passport.
You can add or remove names, and you can change the spelling of names. As for each name itself; in general you can choose any name you like — it is not specifically laid down in law what sort of name you can call yourself. However, in some cases a change of name will break the law in another way. For example, you cannot change your name to avoid paying a debt, or you would be committing fraud.
In practice, you also have to choose a name that official bodies will accept. In particular, HM Passport Office have their own rules about what sort of name can be put in a passport. Your name is legally established by usage , so if your name is rejected by HM Passport Office, then effectively you have not changed your name. Restrictions on names on passport applications. Other "unusual" names and changes made for a frivolous purpose.
Types of "unusual" or frivolous name changes. There are certain sorts of names that, although they do not break any law, they are almost certain to cause problems when you are getting your name changed on official records. We recommend that you do not choose a name that:. HM Passport Office have their own policy on unacceptable names, and you should take particular care to follow their rules. If your name is refused by HM Passport Office, then legally you won't have changed your name, because you need to update all of your official documents.
Note that if you don't actually hold a U. Any name which we refuse for one of the rules above will also be refused by HM Passport Office. However, HM Passport Office has further restrictions on what sorts of names it will print on a passport.
These restrictions are not the official government policy on names — they are the rules of HM Passport Office itself. HM Passport Office is entitled to refuse what they may recognise to be legal names in order to ensure that the reputation of the U.
HM Passport Office will not print names with diacritical marks in passports — that is — accents, cedillas, circumflexes, umlauts etc. You should write the transliterated version on your passport application — it does not matter if your official documents show the name with diacritical marks, provided the transliteration is clearly derived from the original name.
Names containing numbers, e. Super8 , or 4Real HM Passport Office will not print numerals 0—9 on a passport — only alphabetical characters A—Z , hyphens and apostrophes. If you have a number in your name and it appears on your original birth certificate , HM Passport Office will write out the number alphabetically, for example, as Super Eight or Four Real.
However names containing numbers on a deed poll will be refused. Vulgar, offensive or blasphemous names are not necessarily illegal.
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