Hindi Name Change Translation
Hindi name change translation for USCIS, a DMV, a university or a bank asking why your Indian birth certificate or marksheet does not match your passport. India has no name change court order; the proof is an affidavit on stamp paper, a notice in two newspapers and often a gazette entry, and in the Hindi states the first two are in Hindi. We translate the full set into certified English.
- Up to 250 words per page
- $25 per page
- Standard turnaround
- From 24 hours
- Certificate of accuracy
- Signed & stamped
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Written for Hindi change of name records
How a name changes in India, and what the paper looks like
Most Indian name discrepancies are not a change of mind. They are a surname added, a Devi or Kumar dropped, a spelling settled on at passport time, or a child registered without any name at all.
The affidavit on stamp paper
The core document is a शपथ पत्र sworn before a notary or an oath commissioner, giving the old name, the new name, the reason for the change and the date from which the new name is used. The passport office asks for it together with the newspaper notices, and a married woman taking her husband's surname often swears one to go with the marriage certificate. We translate the old and new names letter for letter as written, give the stamp value and the state as printed, and keep the father's or husband's name in its S/o or W/o position, because US offices match on it.
The newspaper notice and the Rajpatra
The notice runs in one English and one Hindi daily, under the heading नाम परिवर्तन, as a four-line box: formerly known as X, henceforth known as Y. The clipping carries the paper's name, edition and date in Hindi, and we translate the masthead line so the reader can place it. Central government employees and anyone who wants a national record publish in the Gazette of India, Part IV, which is in English; others use their state gazette, and the Rajasthan राजपत्र and the Uttar Pradesh gazette print the entry in Hindi, which we translate with the notification number and date.
Discrepancies that are not changes
A woman who was Sunita Devi on her marksheet and Sunita Sharma on her passport has not changed her name in any Indian office's eyes, and no gazette entry exists. A man with the single name Rajesh holds a passport with one name field filled and the other blank. A birth certificate reading Name not entered matches nothing. For these the paper is a one-and-the-same-person affidavit and sometimes a school leaving certificate that names the child. Our translation shows each document exactly as written and, on request, a note that the names refer to the same person.
Who is asking for your Hindi change of name translation?
The translation is the same. What changes is whether the recipient wants anything added to it.
USCIS
USCIS asks for a complete English translation and a signed certification from the translator. No notarization is needed.
US passports and the Department of State
The Department of State wants the translation notarized. Add notarization at checkout and we handle the rest.
Banks, DMVs and Social Security
Offices updating your record to the new name accept a certified translation of the order, read next to the original. Some DMVs want it notarized as well, so check with your office first.
Before you upload
Three things that save a day of back and forth on a Hindi change of name.
Send the court order or the registry act
A name change is proved by the judge's order, the deed poll or the registry entry that recorded it. Upload the document that made the change, not only an ID in the new name.
Show both names in the scan
The page that lists the old name and the new one is the page every recipient wants. Include the seal, the registration number and the back of the page.
Give us the English spelling of both names
Tell us how each name appears on your passport or other documents. The translation keeps the names as the order writes them and notes the spelling you use.
Details and pricing
What is included in a Hindi change of name translation
One price per page covers the translation and its certification. A page is up to 250 words, and the quote tells you the page count before you pay.
Everything on the change of name is translated, including stamps, seals and handwritten notes. Tell us the English spelling you use for each name when you order.
Certified Translation
Word-for-word translation with a certificate of accuracy for official use.
$25
USD / page
up to 250 words per page
Included
- Signed & stamped certification of translation accuracy
- Certified by a professional translator
- Digital delivery via PDF
- Review and approve final translation
- 100% Guaranteed Acceptance
- Standard turnaround starting at 24 hours
Optional services
- Expedited turnaround
- Priority handling when your deadline is shorter than the standard turnaround.
- By deadline
- Notarization
- A notary public signs and stamps the certification statement.
- $20 per order
- Physical copy
- A wet-ink original of your translation, mailed by express courier.
- $35 per order
- Apostille
- Authenticates the notary’s signature and seal for use in Hague Convention countries.
- $180 per document
What the certificate of accuracy states
Your translation arrives with a Certification of Translation Accuracy issued by ImmiTranslate. It is the page the receiving organization checks first.
- The translation is complete and accurate.
- The document title and the language pair.
- The translator is competent in both languages.
- A signature and the ImmiTranslate certification stamp.
- Our American Translators Association corporate membership.
Our translation process
Our goal is to make the translation process as simple as possible for you. Our service is streamlined specifically for documents of this nature.
Hindi Change Of Name FAQ
Most questions about pricing and turnaround can be answered faster by requesting a quote.
- I only kept the cut-out box of the newspaper notice. Is that enough?
- Often not. The box alone does not show which paper printed it or on what date, and those are what a reader checks. Keep or buy the full page with the masthead and the date, or ask the newspaper for a copy of that edition. We translate the notice and the masthead line together, so the reader can see where and when it was published.
- I changed my name by a US court order after marriage. Does the Indian consulate need it in Hindi?
- No. The consulate's passport and OCI procedures run in English, and a US court order or marriage certificate goes in as it is, with whatever affidavit and newspaper notices the consulate asks for. Hindi is needed only when the new name has to reach a Hindi-language office in India, such as a sub-registrar updating a property record or a university reissuing a degree, and then we translate the order into Hindi with the court's seal and the clerk's certification included.
- My school records say उर्फ, alias. Is that a name change?
- No. उर्फ, alias, is how Indian school, land and police records show that a person is known by two names at once, Ram Kumar उर्फ Ramu, often a formal name and the one the village uses. It records both names as current, not one replacing the other. We translate it as alias and keep both names in the order written.
- How much does a certified translation cost?
- Certified translation is $25 per page, with a page counted as up to 250 words. Notarization, a mailed physical copy and an apostille are optional and priced separately.
- How long does a certified translation take?
- Standard turnaround starts at 24 hours and depends on the length and language of your documents. If you have a deadline, include it in your quote request.
Other Hindi documents we translate
Change of name translation in other languages
Each of these pages is written for that language's change of name records.
Sending it with an application? Read the USCIS translation requirements, Notarized translations before you order.