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Help & advice
Yes, if you are choosing a new name: changing your name by Deed Poll gives you the legal document that proves it, and you can use it from the day you sign. Marriage needs no Deed Poll, because your certificate does that job, and no deed can change a title such as Mr or Dr. Ours costs £18.50, hand-drafted and posted the same working day.
What GOV.UK says each kind of change needs:
This is the job GOV.UK gives a deed poll: legal proof that your name has changed. It can alter any part of the name, whether that means adding one, dropping one, adding or removing a hyphen, or respelling it.
Apply online – £18.50Taking the surname of your husband, wife or civil partner needs no Deed Poll, on GOV.UK’s guidance: a copy of the marriage or civil partnership certificate goes to each organisation instead. For a passport that covers a double-barrelled name too, and you can apply up to 3 months before the ceremony. Your driving licence after marriage.
Showing your marriage certificate together with the final order (once called the decree absolute) may be enough to return to your earlier name, GOV.UK says. Be ready for a few to say no, though: GOV.UK adds that some will only restore the old name on sight of a deed poll. Your driving licence after divorce.
For a passport, HM Passport Office also wants your birth certificate, a statement you sign saying you now use the earlier surname “for all purposes”, and proof you are using it, such as a payslip or a council letter.
To change the spelling slightly, change the order of your forenames or remove a middle name, GOV.UK says a passport needs 2 documents showing you use the new name, such as a bank statement or a letter from your council. Other organisations set their own rules, and some may want a Deed Poll.
GOV.UK says you cannot use a deed poll to change titles such as Mr, Mrs or Doctor. DVLA changes a title on the same form as a name, without evidence unless it is a hereditary title, and a passport shows a professional title on its observations page, with evidence.
DVLA accepts a deed poll, a statutory declaration or a Gender Recognition Certificate when your name and gender change. A new birth certificate comes only with a Gender Recognition Certificate.
Apply online – £18.50For a child under 16, a parent applies for a Child Deed Poll, and every person with parental responsibility must consent. Without that consent, the route is a court order. From 16, they can apply for an Adult Deed Poll themselves.
Apply online – £18.50A lost Deed Poll is drafted again as a Replacement, recording the change you already made and the date you made it.
Apply online – £18.50From GOV.UK’s deed poll, passport and DVLA guidance, checked October 2026.
It does
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Both are allowed, and both prove the change. The difference is who checks it, what it is printed on, and what happens if an organisation turns it down.
Your own
Ours
GOV.UK’s template sits on its deed poll pages. Witnessing rules for every deed sit in the Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989, at section 1. Neither route needs a solicitor.
£18.50
Adult, Child or Replacement, hand-drafted, checked and printed on certificate paper.
from £2.99
You choose the Royal Mail service at the checkout.
From £6
Sold in bundles, from £6 for 2, up to £25 for 20, so several organisations can be told at once.
£1.99
Optional, and keeps everything flat in the post.
Enrolment with the High Court is a separate, optional step: £53.05, several months, and published in The Gazette. Every cost of a name change.
Ask what it objects to, and ask for the answer in writing. Counter staff are often applying an internal rule rather than a legal one, so a second look is worth asking for.
Keep your original, and send a certified copy rather than a photocopy where one is accepted.
If one of ours is refused
We refund you in full. Ours are written by paralegals, and quality control reads every one before it is printed.
Yes. On GOV.UK’s own definition it is a legal document proving a change of name, and once signed it works as proof of your new name at once.
Yes, from 16. GOV.UK supplies wording and asks for 2 witnesses aged 18 or over. It also warns that a home-made deed may be refused by some organisations, so check with the ones you deal with before relying on one.
Two. Ours has a space for each, and we recommend using both: adults over 18, not related to you and not living with you. It is the same number GOV.UK’s own wording names. Who can witness it.
Not to take your spouse's or civil partner's surname: GOV.UK says your certificate is the evidence, and for a passport that includes a double-barrelled name. You need a Deed Poll only when the new name goes beyond what the certificate shows.
Our Adult, Child and Replacement Deed Polls are £18.50 each. Certified copies, delivery and a board-backed envelope are optional extras, chosen at the checkout. Every cost of a name change.
Ask what it objects to, in writing, and ask for a second look. If a Deed Poll we have drafted is ever refused, we refund you in full.
Something else? Ask a paralegal and we will answer, usually the same working day.
Apply online in about five minutes. Your Deed Poll is drafted, checked and dispatched the same working day, and guaranteed to be accepted.
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