Changing your surname.

[BOF]

Slightly off topic...

Old tale about the Spanish mother and Israeli father who had a daughter...

The Mother always called her as Carmen - "Carmen come for dinner etc"

The father called her Cohen after his family name...

By the time she was 12 she did not really know if she was......

BOF

[QuickQuack]

Dave Hedgehog said:

All that jazz said:

Thought I'd dig up an old topic rather than start a new one.

Question on behalf of someone else : when you inform the DVLA you've changed your name and they issue you with a new photocard, do you keep your original 16 character driver number or do you get issued with a fresh one? As you may know, the first 5 characters are taken from your surname so if your surname was Smith and you changed it to Jones would it have a JONES123456AB1CD number or would you keep your old SMITHxxx one?

Anyone changed their name here?

I got a new number starting with my new name

and just a reminder you DO NOT need to pay any company to change your name, it's free to do. MSE has a guide

Edited by Dave Hedgehog on Monday 22 August 14:12

I got a new number after a name change too.

[QuickQuack]

BOF said:

Slightly off topic...

Old tale about the Spanish mother and Israeli father who had a daughter...

The Mother always called her as Carmen - "Carmen come for dinner etc"

The father called her Cohen after his family name...

By the time she was 12 she did not really know if she was......

BOF

[Einion Yrth]

QuickQuack said:

Dave Hedgehog said:

All that jazz said:

Thought I'd dig up an old topic rather than start a new one.

Question on behalf of someone else : when you inform the DVLA you've changed your name and they issue you with a new photocard, do you keep your original 16 character driver number or do you get issued with a fresh one? As you may know, the first 5 characters are taken from your surname so if your surname was Smith and you changed it to Jones would it have a JONES123456AB1CD number or would you keep your old SMITHxxx one?

Anyone changed their name here?

I got a new number starting with my new name

and just a reminder you DO NOT need to pay any company to change your name, it's free to do. MSE has a guide

Edited by Dave Hedgehog on Monday 22 August 14:12

I got a new number after a name change too.

Do you have to pay for your new licence number? Just inquisitive, I have no particular desire to change my name.

[QuickQuack]

Einion Yrth said:

QuickQuack said:

Dave Hedgehog said:

All that jazz said:

Thought I'd dig up an old topic rather than start a new one.

Question on behalf of someone else : when you inform the DVLA you've changed your name and they issue you with a new photocard, do you keep your original 16 character driver number or do you get issued with a fresh one? As you may know, the first 5 characters are taken from your surname so if your surname was Smith and you changed it to Jones would it have a JONES123456AB1CD number or would you keep your old SMITHxxx one?

Anyone changed their name here?

I got a new number starting with my new name

and just a reminder you DO NOT need to pay any company to change your name, it's free to do. MSE has a guide

Edited by Dave Hedgehog on Monday 22 August 14:12

I got a new number after a name change too.

Do you have to pay for your new licence number? Just inquisitive, I have no particular desire to change my name.

I didn't need to pay anything but it was rather a long time ago, before photo licences. I don't think my wife paid anything to change her name on her photo licence when we got married so it's probably still free.