Published: 07.02.2023.
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Execution deadline in working days
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Individual person
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The given name or surname (given name and surname) may be changed by a person who is a citizen of Latvia, a non-citizen or who has been granted stateless status in the Republic of Latvia if he or she has reached the age of 15 and if one of the following reasons exists:
1. the given name or surname makes it difficult for a person to enter the company;
2. A person wishes to add a second name to the name entered in the birth register. The name first entered in the register shall be considered as the basic word;
3. a person wishes to obtain or add a spouse's surname to his surname;
4. the person wishes to obtain his or her family name in the direct ascending line;
5. a person wishes to recover his or her mother-in-law or maiden name, if he or she has not done so, to sort the marriage or after the marriage has been invalidated;
6. the person has changed sex;
7. one of the parents of a minor or both has been convicted of committing an intentional, serious or particularly serious crime.

The application for changing the given name or surname (given name and surname) shall be accepted by the family list department and shall be forwarded to the Department of Justice Department for taking a decision.

  • Process description
  • Related documents

Process description

  1. Service requests
    Service request channels - face-to-face, arrival in the family list department.

    Receipt of services documents required:
    1. an application specifying the reason for changing the given name or surname (given name and surname);
    2. a personal identification document;
    3. the written consent of the parents of a minor person to change the given name or surname (given name and surname) or, if the minor person is in custody - the written consent of the guardian and the decision of the Orphan's Court regarding the conformity of the name or surname (given name and surname) with the interests of the minor person;
    4. a decision of the Orphan's Court regarding the conformity of the name or surname (given name and surname) with the interests of a minor in custody;
    Photograph 5 (4,5 x 3,5 cm);
    6. a document certifying payment of the State fee.

  2. Receipt of services
    Service receiving channels - correspondence, the Ministry of Justice's Department of Nightlists shall notify the decision by post.


    Payments related to the receipt of the service - in the sound of Section 9, Paragraph one of the Law on changing the name, surname and nationality record, the State fee for changing the name, surname or nationality record shall be EUR 71,14.
    The change of the given name, surname shall be released from the State fee if one of the parents of the minor person or both of the parents has been convicted of committing an intentional, serious or particularly serious crime.

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