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To change your name or other personal details on your passport, send the standard passport application form with evidence about the change
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Send one of the following when you apply for a passport: a Gender…
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Use form NM04 to give notice of an unconditional change of name by the company members.
Information and guidance for variations in names.
Response to request for information on pseudonyms, nick names, code names and alternative names for ministers, MPs, officials and other individuals known to DECC.
How to apply for national listing of agricultural and vegetable plant varieties in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
This information leaflet gives an overview of registration numbers.
Find out about the UK geographical indication (GI) schemes that protect the geographical names of food, drink and agricultural products, and the UK GI schemes registers.
The Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (PCGN) guidance on English conventional names.
The most popular baby names that were registered in Northern Ireland in 2021
Tells HM Passport Office staff about names that cannot be used in passports.
The most popular baby names that were registered in Northern Ireland in 2019 (tables only) and 2020 (tables and full report)
The most popular baby names that were registered in Northern Ireland in 2018
The most popular baby names that were registered in Northern Ireland in 2017
Top 100 most popular boys' and girls' names.
The most popular baby names that were registered in Northern Ireland in 2016
The most popular baby names that were registered in Northern Ireland in 2023.
The most popular baby names that were registered in Northern Ireland in 2022.
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