When may I want to change my name?

There are many reasons for wanting to change your name, including:

• if you get married or enter into a civil partnership, or want to take your partner's name;
• if you get divorced, dissolve a civil partnership or end a long-term relationship;
• to take a double-barrelled name after you marry or enter into a civil partnership;
• as part of a change of gender;
• because you dislike your current name;
• to separate yourself from a particular person or a time or event in your life;
• to stop a former partner finding you; or
• to feel more part of a new family, for example a step-family.

You may also want to change a child’s name.

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