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previous surname at 16th birthday?

I´m making the UCAS apply and I saw it, I suppose in the uk you can choose your surname with 16 or something like that. In Spain we have 2 surnames.

Someone could explain me the surname issue?

Reply 1

PinkMobilePhone

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erm no....in the uk you get your surname when you are born...this is usually the same as your father's surname (although not always, sometimes people take their mother's surname if the parents aren't married for example).

This remains your surname for the rest of your life unless:

1) you change it by deedpoll just because you feel like it
2) you are a woman and you get married and you take your husband's name (you don't have to though, you can keep your surname if you don't want your husband's surname).

That's it.

No idea what you're on about.

Reply 2

Indievertigo

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You can also be a man and take your partner's surname I believe.

Reply 3

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Indievertigo

You can also be a man and take your partner's surname I believe.

can you? didn't know that...you live and learn.

is that legal purely by being married or would it require a deed poll ontop of a wedding certificate?

Reply 4

Indievertigo

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I'm not sure, it might just be in Germany - My aunt moved there to stay with her partner and when they got married they chose her name rather than his.

Reply 5

Shockley

15

Yes, men can take on their wife's surname if they want. Most people just follow tradition but the law says you can have either.

Reply 6

Dude

14

You can change your name to anything you want to, even if it is something really stupid like (to take from the Simpsons) Max Power.

Reply 7

kellywood_5

17

The vast majority of applicants won't have a previous surname because usually your surname only changes if you get married, so if it doesn't apply to you, just leave it blank. For the main surname question, I guess you'd have to put both your surnames.

Reply 8

The Little Mermaid

It can change for afew reasons. If someone gets married and they take their partner's name, if they legally change their name, or if their parents divorce and the mother opts to revert back to her maiden name and transfer it to her child.

Reply 9

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The Little Mermaid

It can change for afew reasons. If someone gets married and they take their partner's name, if they legally change their name, or if their parents divorce and the mother opts to revert back to her maiden name and transfer it to her child.

If the father has been named on the birth certificate, a child under 18 cannot change his/her name without consent of both parents even if the parents are divorced (unless one of the parents is untracable). So I believe a deed poll would be needed for the child to take the mother's maiden name.

Reply 10

Perdomo

OP

2

Here another question...

What surname i should use, cause Perdomo it´s my second surname, my first one it´s a very common spanish, there are 300,000 morales and 16,000 perdomo in spain, and of this 16,000 15,900 r born in the canary islands.

I want to know if could use my second surname as my surname in the uk, i sent a mail to my embassy in london and didn´t have any reply.

Reply 11

Aj_deity

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It's really up to you which surname you pick. I go to school with a Spanish guy who uses his first and treats his second kind of like the English use middle names. Just pick the one you like best (and don't worry about your first one being a common Spanish name- English people don't have common Spanish names, they have common English ones.)

Reply 12

Perdomo

OP

2

A common name or surname?

I have a lot of friends called Kevin lol, and they are 100% spanish

I think it´s for Kevin Costner...

Reply 13

kellywood_5

17

Which surname do you use for official documents, eg passport and birth certificate, or do you use both? I'm guessing it would be the same for everything else, but I'm not sure.

Reply 14

Perdomo

OP

2

We use both.

Reply 15

mtbab

17

i'd put both down then, like a double barrelled surname.

do you want both on like your graduation certificate and stuff (yeh i'm jumping a few years ahead here but stay with me) coz if you want both, just put both down like a double barrelled surname (eg Courtney Cox Arquette )

Reply 16

kellywood_5

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mtbab

i'd put both down then, like a double barrelled surname.

do you want both on like your graduation certificate and stuff (yeh i'm jumping a few years ahead here but stay with me) coz if you want both, just put both down like a double barrelled surname (eg Courtney Cox Arquette )

If you use both in Spain, it's probably best to use both in the UK as well just in case, to keep it official.

Reply 17

-Aimee-

13

i'd reccommend that you put down whatever is in your passport, for future verification of your degree(s) for example

previous surname at 16th birthday?

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