Clerical error corrections

Amending a Birth Registration?

Are you:
  • Correcting your child’s first or middle name before his or her 1st birthday?
  • Correcting your child’s first or middle name before his or her 1st birthday?
  • Legally changing you or your child’s name?

Modifying a birth certificate?

Information displayed on a birth certificate are retrieved from a person’s birth registration. Since information on both documents must be identical; a change on one document requires a change on the other.

Amending the Name of an Infant

If a correction or a replacement is required for an infant’s name; his/her parent(s) must complete and submit GRO’s amendment form.

Minor Clerical Application Form

One Year and Older

A sworn affidavit is required if the intended alteration to the child’s name does change it’s pronunciation.

For example:

  • Alli to read Ally or Ali
  • Sharran to Sharon
  • Eon to Eyon or Ian
  • Shawn to Sean, Shaun
If no name is given to a child under the age of one year; his/her parent(s) may submit a completed amendment form at any General Register Office.

Adding an Additional Name

A court order from the nearest magistrate to the applicant’s residence is required for the addition of a name. A copy of the the court order must me submitted to the closest GRO branch.