Changing your name

EdgarAllenPoo

How long does this process take and do you go to a solicitor first or the court?

Rhonda9000

Doing a deed poll to change your name is straight forward. You can get a solicitor to do it for you or just do it yourself, get it signed by Comm for Oaths and bring it to one of the admin offices in the Four Courts. Not sure how long it takes but cant imagine very long..

Talk to you soon Princess Consuela Bananahammock

DublinWriter

You first need to go to the admin office in the Four Courts and buy a couple of sheets of blank legal paper.

Then go to the Justice web site and print off the Deed Poll declaration on said paper.

Find a local Commissioner for Oaths, get the above document signed then bring it back to the admin office of the Four Courts and if all is in order, they'll write your name change in their big buke there and then, Bob's your aunty!

Our man in Havana

I did it a few years ago and was a painless process. Getting the legal paper was the hard part. You have to get it stamped for €30 also. It did take a month for it to comeback from the court after submission with a judges signature on it. Mine has the chief justices sig on it.

The only problem with the process is it requires personal attendances at the high court at all stages. You need to lodge it in person and collect the signed document in person. Also they will ask for a copy of the long form birth cert.

Victor

You can of course just change your name through practice, getting it recognised by other people is the problem.

Many people change their name on marriage and no legal formalities are used.

Our man in Havana

Victor wrote: »

You can of course just change your name through practice, getting it recognised by other people is the problem.

Many people change their name on marriage and no legal formalities are used.

I went down the road of changing mine by marriage and encountered so much hassle. I just went for a deed poll to stop the problems I was having.

EdgarAllenPoo

I'm only looking at changing my first name. Does that make the process less complicated?

Our man in Havana

Nope. The process is the same.

IRISH RAIL

do you need a reason or can you just walk up and pick something cool
say hello to rock hunter!

Our man in Havana

There is no walking up for a start. You need to prepare everything before approaching the High Court. As for picking something cool, they only allow real first names. They have a book of names and if your choice is not in there you can't use it.

IRISH RAIL

what if the name was in another language sorry but this is something that really interests me
if say it was a hebrew or arabic name ?

Our man in Havana

You better have proof that it is a real bona fide name.

satori

Does this stand true?

As my sister Thriana is hoping to officially change her name (due to a personal appreciation of her lineage) to the Sinti version of Thyai – would this really be rejected as we have researched the name, and beyond a few references it is more or less isolated to the family line.

It seems so very unusual that they would do this, seeing as Ireland is very multinational now and with quite a large amount of unusual names.

Thanks

Satori

Our man in Havana

You would have to show that it is nothing rude or offensive. Other than that I could not see a problem.

maidhc

Bond-007 wrote: »

There is no walking up for a start. You need to prepare everything before approaching the High Court. As for picking something cool, they only allow real first names. They have a book of names and if your choice is not in there you can't use it.

Humm I somehow don't think so, unless perhaps they have "Sean Dublin Bay Loftus" in their little book!

Our man in Havana

It was a solicitor in Dublin that told me about the existance of the book of names. Looks like he was wrong.