Birth certificate name issue

bouicca21

My brother has been spelling his name differently for nearly 60 years and has never had a problem.

smudge56

It was probably an error by the registrar and your parents didn’t notice it at the time.  You have your passport in the name you use for all purposes so that’s the important thing. It would only be considered a minor change of name anyway.

Silvertabby

Back in my LGPS days, I was processing a pension application for a lady - when she rang me in a panic re my request for a copy of her birth certificate.

She had been Christened, and had been known as Florence (not actually Florence - just using this as an example!) all her life, but that wasn't the name on her birth certificate.  Seems daddy had 'wet the baby's head' a little too liberally on his way to the Registry Office, and had registered her as 'Florrie Baby'.

She got her pension.

Slinky

My friend's husband was registered by the registrar as Davied not David on his birth certificate. Because that's what got put on the certificate, that's what his family used rather than getting it corrected!

Flugelhorn

Slinky said:

My friend's husband was registered by the registrar as Davied not David on his birth certificate. Because that's what got put on the certificate, that's what his family used rather than getting it corrected!

That sounds like Ruth from the Archers speaking to her husband "Daaayveeeed"

ChasingtheWelshdream

Hi, I am a registrar in England ao can help a little, albeit I am unsure if Scotland has different rules.

You do not need to produce your birth certificate to register your child’s birth. We ask for your legal name, and if you have/had any other legal names, as these are recorded in the Register. In your case, we would probably use ‘Allan, also known as Alan’ to cover all bases if you were concerned, purely as Alan is on a legal document and would allow you to cross reference your birth certificate if you ever needed to. Although I can’t see when you would need to.

It is more crucial when registering a death. If the deceased has any documents with a different spelling (eg insurances), it can cause difficulties if the death certificate doesn’t state the alternatives. 

When producing ID for your marriage notice, a passport and driving licence are the ‘gold standard’, so if you use these the registrar wouldn’t need anything else. Don’t worry.

This applies for most ID nowadays. Your passport trumps most things.

Mistakes do happen. My own son’s birth certificate is incorrect as presumably I was too sleep deprived to notice at the time. When I register a birth I always say to the parents “I am signing as the Registrar, but you are signing to say it is correct”. There is a £90 fee to correct mistakes you see. But they can, and do, happen.

Edit: It just occurred to me - are you referring to your original birth certificate that was issued at the time of birth? Could you apply for a copy (£11) and see if there was a later amendment? There is the facility to amend a child’s first name within 12 months which appears as an addendum. Just a thought.