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are you allowed to change your name

Question date:		27th April 2005
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salaam
my name that is on my birth certificate is one that no one calls me by, evryone i know (family + friends) call me by another name, im at university, and registred with the name that evryone calls me by, but i now have to change my name at universoty to what it is on my birth certificate, is it permissible to change my name on major documents (i.e passport etc).

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15th May 2005
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Bismihi Ta'ala

The name that is on your birth certificate is probably your real name. The name you are called by at home is probably out of love or a nickname, but not your official name. There is no Shar'ee harm in changing the names on all other documents to the official name.

And Allah knows best.

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Mufti Yaseen Shaikh

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