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Help I want to change my childs first name

  • 12-10-2019 11:54am
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    Registered Users Posts: 27 cuddlebutt


    Hello has anyone does this and can explain to me how I can do this ..
    I want to change my daughters first name. We call her Connie for short but she is registered as Consuela, I want reguster her as Constance. I registered her as Consuela when she was two weeks old and I wasn't thinking straight with the triedness. I dislike the name now as she looks more like a Constance.
    Love to hear personal experiences and how I go about it. I said it to our local registrar d she wasn't very helpful infact she laughed and said I have to do it by deed poll but didn't elaborate any further.
    Do I need to contact a solicitor?
    Thanks


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  • Registered Users Posts: 7,431 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    cuddlebutt wrote: »
    Hello has anyone does this and can explain to me how I can do this ..
    I want to change my daughters first name. We call her Connie for short but she is registered as Consuela, I want reguster her as Constance. I registered her as Consuela when she was two weeks old and I wasn't thinking straight with the triedness. I dislike the name now as she looks more like a Constance.
    Love to hear personal experiences and how I go about it. I said it to our local registrar d she wasn't very helpful infact she laughed and said I have to do it by deed poll but didn't elaborate any further.
    Do I need to contact a solicitor?
    Thanks

    You have to do it by deed poll.

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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 62 ✭✭Murof


    Is your surname Bananahammock?

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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,508 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


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  • Registered Users Posts: 27 cuddlebutt


    Penfailed wrote: »
    You have to do it by deed poll.

    Do you know how I go about this?


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,692 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Citizens Information HERE

    Courts Service page HERE

    As with most legal matters it is perfectly possible to do it yourself if you feel confident in doing so.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 27 cuddlebutt


    Murof wrote: »
    Is your surname Bananahammock?

    Oh how very original


  • Registered Users Posts: 17,410 ✭✭✭✭Blazer


    easiest way is to get a solictor to do it for you unless you're living in Dublin.
    You'll need to get signatures for the forms etc and take them to the high court.
    If you're not living in Dublin or close by get a solictor unless you plan on wasting a whole day travelling to dublin and just waiting for your turn.
    Note that you will need a copy of this deed poll for practically everything going forward be it for passport, licenses, school enrollments etc.
    Had to do it for my son but we changed his surname.


  • Registered Users Posts: 95 ✭✭collywobble7


    You must have been exhausted


  • Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭ Miley Clean Bubble


    You might want to change your boards name while you’re at it :D

    Useful information here but I don’t believe the birth cert itself can be altered now

    http://www.courts.ie/Courts.ie/Library3.nsf/pagecurrent/075D7770C94358068025804B005C294B?opendocument&l=en


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,148 ✭✭✭Salary Negotiator


    For a first name you don’t need to go through deed poll, just start using the preferred name and that’s it.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 27 cuddlebutt


    Blazer wrote: »
    easiest way is to get a solictor to do it for you unless you're living in Dublin.
    You'll need to get signatures for the forms etc and take them to the high court.
    If you're not living in Dublin or close by get a solictor unless you plan on wasting a whole day travelling to dublin and just waiting for your turn.
    Note that you will need a copy of this deed poll for practically everything going forward be it for passport, licenses, school enrollments etc.
    Had to do it for my son but we changed his surname.
    Thankyou for your reply. I am in Wexford. Could I contact a local solicitor who works within family law? Why Dublin?
    Thanks


  • Registered Users Posts: 27 cuddlebutt


    You must have been exhausted

    My grandfather was Spanish. It seemed fitting at the time.


  • Registered Users Posts: 28,041 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    Consuela is much prettier than constance.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,048 ✭✭✭Truckermal


    Consuela is much prettier than constance.


    I'm confused as to how one could look like a Constance...


  • Registered Users Posts: 692 ✭✭✭Cushtie


    I've been going by a diffent first name than that on my birth cert. Basically was registered as one thing and then my parents just decided to start calling me by the Irish variant. since forever.

    Passport. Driving licence. Pps number etc all in the diffent name version. Never ran into any difficulties with it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 28,041 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    Truckermal wrote: »
    I'm confused as to how one could look like a Constance...

    Constance sounds like Gretas sister, I don't like her, she sounds a bit painful. Consuela sounds like a pretty flamingo dancer.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,148 ✭✭✭Salary Negotiator


    Cushtie wrote: »
    I've been going by a diffent first name than that on my birth cert. Basically was registered as one thing and then my parents just decided to start calling me by the Irish variant. since forever.

    Passport. Driving licence. Pps number etc all in the diffent name version. Never ran into any difficulties with it.

    Exactly. First name is about use rather than what’s on the birth cert.

    So once the Op starts using Constance on future ID docs it will eventually just become her child’s name.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,283 ✭✭✭Quandary


    Constance sounds like Gretas sister, I don't like her, she sounds a bit painful. Consuela sounds like a pretty flamingo dancer.

    Was thinking the exact same thing.

    Constance is a bit up herself. She's rude to serving staff and she isn't at all fond of dogs or children. Even though she's quite pretty, her perpetual scowl adds a harshness to an otherwise attractive face. Never a nice word to say about anyone either.

    Consuela on the other hand is much more easy going. She's fun to be around and doesn't care what others think of her. She loves life and lives in the moment. Consuela really lights up a room and greets everyone with genuine heartfelt smile.


  • Registered Users Posts: 27 cuddlebutt


    Quandary wrote: »
    Was thinking the exact same thing.

    Constance is a bit up herself. She's rude to serving staff and she isn't at all fond of dogs or children. Even though she's quite pretty, her perpetual scowl adds a harshness to an otherwise attractive face. Never a nice word to say about anyone either.

    Consuela on the other hand is much more easy going. She's fun to be around and doesn't care what others think of her. She loves life and lives in the moment. Consuela really lights up a room and greets everyone with genuine heartfelt smile.
    That made me laugh! Perhaps I should have another daughter and call her Constance.
    Beautiful writing!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭BDI


    I don’t like either name. They strike me as trying too hard to be a Puritan. Call her Kate if you need a k/c sound at the start.

    Kate’s a nice girl. Pretty but not showy. You one day help her do the dishes while you talk about Kelly and how bad she treats you and how you arnt even sure if she wants to date you. You scald your hand on the hot tap and yelp. Kate laughs no make up, smells abit like a damp dish cloth and washing up liquid. A snot bubble appears at her nostril for just a second. This just makes her laugh abit more. That’s the last time you will give Kelly anything more than courtesy.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 14,811 ✭✭✭✭ShaneU


    You could just change it to Connie, everyone is doing the short name as full name thing now


  • Registered Users Posts: 27 cuddlebutt


    ShaneU wrote: »
    You could just change it to Connie, everyone is doing the short name as full name thing now

    We call her Connie.


  • Registered Users Posts: 27 cuddlebutt


    BDI wrote: »
    I don’t like either name. They strike me as trying too hard to be a Puritan. Call her Kate if you need a k/c sound at the start.

    Kate’s a nice girl. Pretty but not showy. You one day help her do the dishes while you talk about Kelly and how bad she treats you and how you arnt even sure if she wants to date you. You scald your hand on the hot tap and yelp. Kate laughs no make up, smells abit like a damp dish cloth and washing up liquid. A snot bubble appears at her nostril for just a second. This just makes her laugh abit more. That’s the last time you will give Kelly anything more than courtesy.

    Haha my name is Kate! Pretty bit not showy. What can I say I am an unassuming beauty!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭BDI


    cuddlebutt wrote: »
    Haha my name is Kate! Pretty bit not showy. What can I say I am an unassuming beauty!

    I read that and could have swore you said you were Katie perry. I had to read it four or five times. You arnt her are you?


  • Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭ Miley Clean Bubble


    Quandary wrote: »

    Constance is a bit up herself. She's rude to serving staff and she isn't at all fond of dogs or children. Even though she's quite pretty, her perpetual scowl adds a harshness to an otherwise attractive face. Never a nice word to say about anyone either.
    .

    Yeah but after midnight, wow, just wow :pac::pac::pac:


  • Administrators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,703 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭hullaballoo


    Lads, calm down please. No need to lose the run of yourselves over a child's name thanks.


  • Registered Users Posts: 21,969 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    Go the whole hog - Constance Markievicz!

    Not your ornery onager



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,756 ✭✭✭vector


    cuddlebutt wrote: »
    Do I need to contact a solicitor?
    Thanks


    A Soliciotor could get the template, insert the blanks, print on correct paper, provide the comm for oaths... but would you then still have to travel to Dublin to have it enrolled, or because the solr is a solr can they post it and vouch that they met you?


  • Registered Users Posts: 342 ✭✭Lesalare


    I just think of constipation when I hear Constance and I picture a rather stern sort banging her finger into a table to make a point with a pursed mouth.

    Consuela evokes thoughts of Penelope Cruz, Spanish guitars, frilly dancing skirts, sunshine, gorgeous flowers etc etc.

    Why don’t you just change it to Connie if that’s what you call her.

    I’ve never got this whole thing of “His name is Michael but we’re going to call him Dave for the rest of his life” Just christen a child the name they will be known as. Nicknames come with time.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    My 85 year old mother is of a family of 6 none of whom have ever been known by the names on their birth certs. It’s not even a problem now when getting a passport.
    Just call the child the name you like, don’t bother with the deed poll for a forename.


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