Legal analysis: Now children can change their names, and the following supporting documents are required: 1. The applicant’s written application (if the applicant is under 16 years old, the guardian shall apply); 2. The parents are divorced and the change is under the age of 16. If the person's surname is the same, divorce certificate procedures must be provided, and an agreement must be written and signed by both the father and mother. 3. Household registration book and resident ID card; 4. If you are a staff member of an agency, group, school, enterprise or institution, you must submit a certificate of change approved by the personnel department of the unit or school. If you are a student, you must submit a certificate of change approved by the school where you are located. Those who do not have an employer must issue a certificate from the neighborhood (village) committee where the household registration is located, and then the police in the responsible area where the household registration is located will sign on the certificate. The director in charge of the police station will print a change and correction form after agreeing (if a person under 16 years old changes his or her name, there is no need to print it. The change and correction form shall be processed directly at the household registration office of the police station after approval by the director in charge) and reported to the household office hall of the branch for review and approval.
Legal basis: "Regulations on Household Registration of the People's Republic of China" Article 18 When a citizen changes his or her name, the following provisions shall be followed: (1) When a person under the age of eighteen needs to change his or her name , the person or his parents or adopters shall apply to the household registration authority for change registration; (2) When a person over 18 years old needs to change his or her name, the person shall apply to the household registration authority for change registration.