姓名條例

This provision sets rules for how names must be registered and used, including limits on name counts and one-time applications to switch between traditional and Chinese names in specified cases.

符合列舉情形之一的人，可以申請更改姓名。

符合特定未使用本名情形的人，應在本條例施行後申請更正為本名；其中第六條情形的人，並可用特定證件上的名字作為依據向戶政事務所申請。

When a person applies to change a surname, given name, or full name, the household registration authority must update the spouse’s or child’s household registration information and must notify the spouse and children after the change is registered.

申請改姓、冠姓、回復本姓、改名、更正本名時，申請人可以是本人或法定代理人；因收養或終止收養而須改姓時，辦理該登記的申請人也可以提出改姓申請。

Applications under this provision to change or correct a name take effect on the date of household registration, unless another law provides otherwise.

Certain people may not apply to change their surname, given name, or full name.

本條例的施行細則由內政部訂定。

本條例自公布日起施行。

辦理戶籍登記、申請歸化或護照時，原則上要使用中文姓名，並採用通用字典或國語辭典所列文字；臺灣原住民族依文化慣俗登記傳統姓名者，得使用原住民族文字。

中文姓名的寫法應符合順序與分隔限制：姓氏在前、名字在後；沒有姓氏的，可以只登記名字。

Certain indigenous peoples, other minority groups, and naturalizing foreigners or stateless persons may register a name alongside an indigenous-language script or Romanized former foreign name.

國民在依法令行為、且有必要使用姓名時，應使用本名。

Academic credentials, qualifications, licenses, and other certificates must use a person’s real name; if they do not, they are invalid.

Property-related registrations must use the real name; filings that do not use the real name will not be accepted.

A person may apply to change their surname if one of the listed grounds applies. One spouse may also apply to use the spouse’s surname with their original surname or restore their original surname, but restoring the original surname is limited to once in the same marriage.

符合列舉事由的人，可以申請改名；依第六款申請改名以三次為限，未成年人第二次改名要等成年後才能辦理。