Official name is the name that identifies a person for official, administrative, and other purposes. The first person's legal name is generally the name of the person given for the purpose of birth registration and which then appears on the birth certificate (see birth name ), but may change thereafter. Most jurisdictions require the use of legal names for all legal and administrative purposes, and some jurisdictions permit or request a name change to be recorded at marriage. Official names may need to be used on government-issued documents (for example, court orders). The term is also used when an individual changes his or her first name or full name, usually after reaching a certain legal age (usually eighteen or more years, though that can be as low as fourteen in some European countries).
A person's official name is usually the same as his personal name, which consists of a given name and a family name. The order varies according to culture and country. There are also state-by-state differences in the changing legal names by marriage. (See married name .)
Most countries require a law of registration of names for newborn children, and some may deny the registration of "undesirable" names. In 1991, the Swedish couple refused to give their official name to the newborn, in protest against the existing naming law. In 1996, they were fined for not registering names for their child for five years, after they had not managed to register the child's name as Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116, and then as "A".
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Jurisdiction By Country
Canada
Quebec
The Quebec Civil Code states that "Everyone exercises his civil rights under the name given to him and declared in his birth certificate," and the couple retains their legal names at marriage. They may be changed, at the time of registration, only under the conditions specified, and only where such person is a Canadian citizen who has been domiciled at QuÃÆ' Â © bec for at least one year.
German
In Germany, the name is set to a great extent. Regardless of the possibility of adopting a married couple's name, Germans can only change their name for important recognized reasons. Among other reasons, name changes are allowed when names can cause confusion, ridicule, unusual orthographic difficulty, or stigmatization. In certain situations, the children's surname may also be changed to the last name of the original parent, their host or adopt. Transgender people can change their first name. Foreign names in non-Latin writing systems are transliterated according to rules that may be contrary to the transcribing system or translate the name used in the country of origin. The former title of nobility became integrated into the last names in 1919 but continues to be adapted in accordance with gender and other circumstances.
United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom a business that trades under a name other than the owner or corporate entity must display the name of the owner and the address to which the document may be served, or the registered name and number of the corporate body and its registered address. Terms apply to sole traders and partnerships, but there are special provisions for major partnerships where a list of all partners will be burdensome.
Information should be presented at each trading place where the public has access to trade and in documents such as order forms, receipts and, since January 2007, the company website (to be extended later in 2007 to a single merchant website).
England and Wales
In strict English law, if there is a name " legal ", it is easy to change. In the words American and English legal dictionary , "Anyone can take their own family name or many surnames that he wants, without a compulsory license." However, this does not apply to the names given in baptism. As noted by Sir Edward Coke at the Institutes of the Lawes of England, a man may have the names of divers at the time of the diver, but not the divers of Christian names.
The name change is usually done by ballot, registered at the High Court or at the College of Arms, with notice noted in the The London Gazette . Changes may also be made by using a Royal License obtained through the College of Arms, with a similar notice. Although not a mandatory requirement, each is useful for changing the names listed in official documents.
Scotland
The name change must be recorded in the Scottish National Records where the birth has been registered in Scotland, or where a person is a subject in Scotland from an entry in the Adopted Children List, Parent List or Gender Identification List. Only one name change is allowed where a person has not reached the age of 16 years, and after that only one name change and three family name changes can be given during one's lifetime, provided that at least five years have passed between the change of surname. Name changes can also be noted where:
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- The decision or certificate has been given by Lord Lyon King of Arms,
- a valid copy of the will, settlement or a trust certificate is produced, containing the condition that the person concerned takes a name different from his or her registered name, or
- alternate first name or last name is used if the registered name is not in English.
The above formalities are not required where spouses/couples assume the surname of another spouse/marriage partner or civil partnership, or return to their real names after separation, divorce or dissolution of a civil partnership.
Northern Ireland
Anyone born or adopted in Northern Ireland can change their name with the Northern Ireland Register Office under the following circumstances:
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- childbirth registration may be re-enrolled in which the parent is then married, or where a father who was not previously identified was then included (either by declaration, consent or court order);
- the name of a child may be changed once, before the age of 18, at the time of the application by the parent (or adoptive parent, or guardian where the parent has died, as is likely);
- A person aged 18 years and over can apply to register one first name change and three family name changes during the lifetime of that person, provided that at least five years have elapsed between the change of surname.
Polls conducted may also be used in Northern Ireland for this purpose.
United States
Most states in the United States follow a common law that allows renaming for non-deceptive purposes. This is actually the most common method, as most married women do not petition to court under the prescribed method by law, but simply use a new name (usually a husband's, a habit that begins under the closing theory in which a woman loses her identity and most of the rights when he married).
Most state courts have stated that legally assumed names (that is, for non-cheating purposes) are legal names and can be used as their real names, even if the assumed name is often not considered a technically correct name.
The official name of a business is the name in which the business operates.
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Example of a world-renowned legal name
- Adidas
- Boeing
- BMW
- Coca-Cola
- Eurocode
- MTV
- Ford
- Xerox
- Gilette
See also
- Brand
- Pseudonym
- Companies Act 2006
- Trademark
- Trade name
- Doing business as
- Associate football club name
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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