I've been searching google all day for addresses of places I need to notify and stumbled across this link. It's basically to recognise a change of name on the birth certificate (old name and current name are shown on the certificate) which could be useful until you qualify for a brand new birth certificate with a GRC.

Is it worth it? It could be better having your name on your birth cert rather than not having it on there at all. I dunno

http://www.groni.gov.uk/Publication/76200191547.pdf

Name Changes
Recording changes of name and surname in Northern
Ireland for people over two years of age.
● The law of Northern Ireland allows anyone who wishes
to do so to change their name.
● Changes in name or surname of people born or legally
adopted in Northern Ireland can be recorded against
the appropriate entry in the birth or adoption register.
(After a recording has taken place any birth certificate will
show both the old and new name.)
● Details on how to have a name change recorded are
shown in this leaflet.
● Fees for this service and for providing fresh certificates
are set out in a separate leaflet enclosed.



Terms used in this leaflet
Name means christian name(s) or forename(s).
Change includes any change by way of substitution, addition,
omission, spelling or hyphenation. (Examples are shown at the end of this
leaflet).
Qualified applicant is a person acting on behalf of a child under
eighteen years of age. This can be
 the father and mother of the child (where child is adopted, the
adoptive parents),
 if one of the parents is deceased, the surviving parent,
 if the parents of the child are not married, the mother of the child,
 if both parents are deceased, or if the parents were not married
and the mother is deceased, then the guardian or other person
with responsibility for the child.
If the parents are divorced both signatures are still required.
Parental responsibility agreement
Where parents who are not married to each other make an application
in respect of their child the application form only requires the
mother’s signature except in cases where the father has been given
parental responsibility for the child when the application form must
be signed by both parents.
Birth certificates, are of two types
 a full certified copy of the entry in the register,
 a short certificate which is limited to name, surname, sex, date and
district of birth. It does not contain the parents’ names.

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