Three situations, three different affidavits • Swearing the wrong one is the real mistake • Her marriage is not a misprint

Mother Name Change Affidavit Format in Jharkhand

There is no single mother name affidavit, and that is why so many are wasted. A mother name question splits three ways, and each way has its own wording. Her name may be wrongly printed on a record, which is a correction. Her name may have genuinely changed at marriage, from Kumari or Devi to a husband surname, which is a real change and not a misprint. Or two proper forms of her name may both be in use, which is a one and the same person declaration. Swear the change of name wording over a printing mistake and you have sworn to a change that never happened. This page shows you which one you are in, and the wording for each.

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3Situations, and three different wordings

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1Notary, where an institution has no format

0Government forms made only for this

Reviewed by the Jharkhandnamechange.com documentation desk • Updated 21 September 2026

Quick answer

Decide which of three things is actually true before anybody drafts anything, because the wording changes completely and the wrong wording is worse than no affidavit at all. One, her name is wrongly printed. A record says Sunita where her documents say Sunita Devi, or the spelling is simply wrong. Nothing about her name changed. The correct wording says the name is wrongly mentioned or printed as one thing while the correct name is another, and that the two refer to one and the same person. The State Bank of India publishes an affidavit of exactly this shape, with a field reading "my/our name/surname/father's name/mother's name ... is wrongly mentioned /printed as" and the operative line that the two are "the one and the same person". Two, her name genuinely changed. She was Sunita Kumari before marriage and became Sunita Verma after it. That is a real change and it should be sworn as one. Passport Seva publishes a proforma in this shape: "I, (Old Name) (S/o, D/o, or W/o) (Name), resident of (full address) do hereby declare that I have changed my name from (Old Name) to (new/ Correct Name)", with the confirmation that both names are the "same and one identical person". Three, two proper forms are both in use across different records, and you simply need an office to accept that they are the same woman. That is a one and the same person declaration and nothing more. Then one more question that is particular to a mother name and that nobody asks: who swears it, she or the child? Get that wrong and a perfectly worded affidavit still fails.

Decide this first

Three Situations Behind a Mother Name Affidavit, and Only One Is Yours

Mother name change affidavit format in Jharkhand on non judicial stamp paper — Three situations, three wordings. The wrong one swears to something that never happened.

Put your papers side by side and answer one question: did her name actually change, or was it written down wrongly? Everything follows from that.

The three situations behind a mother name affidavit and which wording each needs
What is actually true	Which affidavit it needs
Her name is wrongly printed on a record, and nothing about her name ever changed	A wrongly written or correction affidavit. It states the name as printed, the correct name, and that the two are one and the same person. It must not say she changed her name
Her name genuinely changed at marriage, from Kumari or Devi to a husband surname	A change of name affidavit, because a real change happened. This is where the change wording belongs and nowhere else
Two proper forms of her name are both in use across her records, and both were properly issued	A one and the same person declaration. Nothing is being changed or corrected, you are asking an office to accept that both refer to her
Her name is blank on the record	Not an affidavit question at first. Get a copy of the register entry, because a blank can mean several things and needs the record read before anything is drafted
The record carries a completely different woman name	Also not a template case. That is an error in substance and it needs the papers looked at, not a downloaded format

The mistake this page exists to prevent. Swearing the change of name wording over a printing mistake. If a clerk wrote Sunita instead of Sunita Devi, her name never changed, and an affidavit saying "I have changed my name from Sunita to Sunita Devi" swears to an event that did not happen. Offices read that clause carefully, and a counter that spots it may reject the whole file. The two wordings are opposites, not alternatives. Our page on correction against change of name sets out the test.

Why a mother name splits three ways when a father name usually splits two. Because marriage actually changes many women names in Jharkhand, from Kumari or Devi to a husband surname, while a father name does not change that way. So a mother name case has a genuine middle category that a father name case does not have, and treating her marriage as if it were a clerical error is the single commonest drafting error we see on these files. The Kumari and Devi position is on our Kumari or Devi to the husband surname page.

The actual clauses

Mother Name Affidavit Format: The Operative Wording for Each of the Three

An affidavit is only as good as its operative clause, the one sentence that says what is actually being declared. Everything above it is your name, your father or husband name, your address and your age. Everything below it is the verification. The clause in the middle is the whole document, and it is the clause that changes between the three situations.

Two published forms are worth reading before you draft anything, because both are real and both are free to look at. They are not Jharkhand forms and they are not made for a mother name, but they show you the shape that Government offices and banks already accept.

What the Two Published Forms Actually Say

The wording used by two published forms for a change of name and for a wrongly printed name
The published form	The wording it uses
Passport Seva name change proforma, for a genuine change of name	It reads "I, (Old Name) (S/o, D/o, or W/o) (Name), resident of (full address) do hereby declare that I have changed my name from (Old Name) to (new/ Correct Name)", and goes on to confirm that both names refer to the "same and one identical person". Note the two halves: the change is declared, and then the identity is tied together
State Bank of India Name Correction Affidavit, for a wrongly printed name	Its field reads "my/our name/surname/father's name/mother's name ......... is wrongly mentioned /printed as", and its operative line is that the name as on one document and the name as on the supporting documents "is the one and the same person". Note what is absent: there is no sentence saying anybody changed a name

Read those two side by side and the whole page becomes obvious. The passport proforma says a change happened. The bank affidavit says a printing mistake happened. They are built for two different facts. Your job is to decide which fact is true in your case and then use the matching shape. Nothing about a mother name makes this different, except that a mother is more likely than a father to be in the genuine change bucket.

Situation One: Her Name Is Wrongly Printed

Use this when nothing about her name ever changed and a clerk simply wrote it wrong, or wrote a short form of it. The clause should do three things and nothing more: quote the name exactly as printed on the record, state the correct name, and tie the two to one woman.

Our draft wording, for the wrongly printed case. "That in my (name the document, for example my Class 10 certificate bearing roll number ......), my mother name is wrongly mentioned as ......, whereas her correct and true name, as borne by her own documents, is ....... That both the said names refer to one and the same person, namely my mother. That the said entry is a clerical error and my mother has not changed her name at any time." This is our own drafting, following the shape of the published bank form. It is not a Government form and no office is bound to accept a particular wording.

Situation Two: Her Name Genuinely Changed at Marriage

Use this when she really was Sunita Kumari and really did become Sunita Verma. This is the bucket that exists for mothers and barely exists for fathers, and it is the one people wrongly try to squeeze into a correction affidavit because they think a marriage is somehow not a proper reason.

Our draft wording, for the genuine change case. "That my mother, ......, wife of ......, resident of ......, was known as ...... prior to her marriage solemnised on ......, and that upon her marriage she has been known as ....... That both the said names refer to the same and one identical person. That this declaration is made to have her name recorded correctly in ......." Again our own drafting, following the shape of the published passport proforma. Where she herself is swearing it, the first person form is used throughout.

Situation Three: Two Proper Forms Are Both in Use

Use this when both versions were properly issued and neither is wrong. Sunita Devi on one record, Sunita Kumari Devi on another. You are not correcting anything and you are not changing anything. You are asking an office to accept that both are her.

Our draft wording, for the one and the same person case. "That my mother name appears as ...... in ...... and as ...... in ....... That both the said names belong to one and the same person, namely my mother, ......, wife of ......, resident of ....... That no name has been changed and no entry is being disputed, and this declaration is made only for the purpose of establishing identity before ......." Our own drafting. This is the mildest of the three, and it is the one to prefer whenever you are unsure, because it asserts the least.

Three sentences that should never appear in a mother name affidavit. First, "I have changed my mother name", because you cannot change another adult name by swearing to it. Second, a clause asking an office to "update all records", because an affidavit does not instruct anybody and a counter reading that line knows the drafter does not understand what the document is. Third, any date of marriage, place of birth or document number you have not checked against the paper in front of you. A single wrong figure in an affidavit is what turns a small correction into a long file.

The question nobody asks

Who Swears a Mother Name Affidavit, the Mother or the Child

This is the part that is particular to a mother name and it is the part that is got wrong most often. A well drafted affidavit sworn by the wrong person is still refused. Work it out from whose record is being fixed, not from who is available to go to the notary.

Who should swear a mother name affidavit in each situation
Whose record carries the problem	Who should depose
Your record, for example your school certificate or your passport application, where her name is printed wrongly as a parent entry	You depose, because it is your document and you are stating a fact about your own record. Her own papers go in as the supporting documents. Many offices also like her affidavit alongside yours, and there is no harm in both
Her own record, for example her Aadhaar, her PAN or her bank account	She deposes, always. You cannot swear a change or a correction to another adult own document. If she cannot travel, the notary can be brought to her, or a local notary used where she lives
She has genuinely changed her name at marriage and her own records are being brought in line	She deposes. This is her name and her change, and on her own documents nobody else can declare it for her
She has died, and her name is wrong on your record	You depose, stating the date of her death and annexing the death certificate, and produce whatever of her documents the family holds. Do not draft anything in her voice. An affidavit is sworn by a living person
You are still a minor and the record is your school record	A parent or guardian deposes for you. The Passport Seva proforma itself carries a minor version in which a parent or guardian declares on the child behalf, which is the same principle

The commonest wasted affidavit we see. A son swears that his mother has changed her name, and takes it to her bank to get her account updated. It fails, and it should fail. Her account, her name, her affidavit. If she is alive, she deposes on her own documents. Nothing about being her child gives you standing to declare a change in her name.

If she has died, the affidavit is not the main paper. The death certificate and her own surviving documents are. The affidavit only explains, in your voice, how the entry on your record relates to the woman those documents describe. Say plainly in it that she has died and give the date, because an office that later discovers this from another paper will treat the whole file with suspicion.

Do it in this order

How to Get a Mother Name Affidavit Made in Jharkhand, Step by Step

Lay out her own documents first

Her Aadhaar, PAN, voter card, bank passbook and school certificate, side by side. Whatever form of her name most of her own papers carry today is the target. Never pick a form from your record and work backwards to hers.

Decide which of the three you are in

Wrongly printed, genuinely changed, or two proper forms in use. Write the answer down in one sentence before anybody drafts. If you cannot write that sentence, you are not ready for a notary.

Ask the office for its own format

Before paying for a draft, ask the school, bank or office in writing whether it has a prescribed format. Banks often do, and the State Bank of India publishes one. Using the office own form removes every argument about wording.

Settle who deposes

Her record, she deposes. Your record, you depose. She has died, you depose with the death certificate. Fix this before the stamp paper is bought, because the deponent name is printed on it.

Buy the stamp paper in the deponent name

Rs 100 non-judicial stamp paper is our safe default across Jharkhand. It must be bought in the name of the person who will sign, not in the name of whoever goes to the vendor.

Quote the wrong entry exactly as printed

Letter for letter, spacing and all, with the document named and its number given. An affidavit that paraphrases the wrong entry is useless at a counter that is comparing it against the certificate.

Attest before a notary, and annex the proofs

A notary is enough for an ordinary correction or identity affidavit. Annex her identity documents, and the death certificate where she has died. Take two originals, because offices keep one.

File it with the application, not on its own

An affidavit never fixes a record by itself. It goes in with the written application to the school, board, bank or Registrar, and you keep a copy of the application carrying the office received stamp.

Step 3 is the one people skip and then regret. Offices that have their own format will usually reject a general affidavit even when it says exactly the same thing, because the clerk is matching your paper against a template. One written question costs nothing and saves a second stamp paper.

Where her own name is being changed across her own records, the route is the one on our mother name change and correction page. Where the problem is the entry on a birth record, start at name change in birth certificate. The general affidavit rules across Jharkhand are on our name change affidavit page, and the father side of the same question, which splits two ways rather than three, is on the father name change affidavit format page.

The full process

Central Gazette Process for a Name From Jharkhand, and When an Affidavit Is Not Enough

Read this before the rest of this section. Most mother name affidavits need no gazette at all. A wrongly printed entry is a correction, and a one and the same person declaration is an identity paper. Neither publishes anything. The gazette enters the picture in one situation only: where your mother herself is changing her own name across her own documents and an office asks for a published notice. It is printed here in full so you can see exactly what that would involve, and so you recognise at once when a gazette file is being quoted to you for a clerical mistake in a school register.

No district in Jharkhand has a gazette counter, so the file goes from Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Dhanbad, Bokaro, Hazaribagh, Deoghar or anywhere else in the state to the Department of Publication, Civil Lines, Delhi 110054, and the notice publishes in Part IV of the Gazette of India. As reported in July 2025 the Finance Department stopped personal name change notifications from the Jharkhand Government Press with immediate effect, so there is no state alternative to fall back on.

The Eight Steps of a Name Change File Sent From Jharkhand

Settle the final name first

Write it out letter by letter, with the spacing wanted, and then use exactly that in every paper. A corrigendum after publication is a second fee and a second wait.

Pick the category, then its proforma

For a woman taking a husband surname after marriage this is the married woman route, not an ordinary change of name. Twelve categories exist and only one is yours, and picking the wrong one is how files come back.

Type the proforma in duplicate

Two originals, signed in the old name, with two witnesses giving signature, full name, address and mobile number on both copies. The old name has to be quoted exactly as it is printed on each certificate named.

Get the affidavit attested at the right level

A notary for the ordinary change of name, and a First Class Magistrate of the concerned area where the different surname guidelines apply. This is the step that catches people out.

Publish and keep the original paper

One of the daily local leading newspapers, carrying both names in full, the father or husband name and the address. The whole original paper goes in the file, not a cutting.

Pay only through BharatKosh

The Non Tax Receipt Portal and nowhere else since October 2018. Select the Department of Publication by name, read the amount the portal shows on the day, pay in your own name and print the e-receipt.

Check every date, then post it yourself

Nothing in the file older than one year. Personally or by post or courier only, never through an agent or advocate. Photocopy everything first, because nothing sent in comes back.

Read the notice, then download it

Check both names letter by letter the day it publishes, note the page and issue number, and download the e-Gazette copy of that Part IV issue.

The Five Papers in the File, and What Is Checked in Each

The five papers of a Central Gazette name change file and what the Department checks in each
The paper	What is checked in it, clause by clause
1. The proforma, in duplicate	That it is the right category format; the existing full name exactly as her documents carry it, surname included; the new full name exactly as settled; the father or husband name; the full address with pin code; the signature in the old name; two witnesses complete with signature, full name, address and mobile number
2. The affidavit or undertaking	Signed by her, because it is her name; the same names and address as the proforma, word for word; attested at the level the category asks for; on Rs 100 non-judicial stamp paper as our safe default
3. The original newspaper	The original paper, not a cutting; the paper name and date of publication visible; both of her names carried; the same spelling as the proforma; dated within the last year
4. Photographs, identity proof and any category paper	Two self attested passport photographs; identity and address proof matching the proforma address; both witnesses proofs; and whatever the category itself demands, such as a marriage certificate or a no objection certificate where the maiden surname requirement applies
5. The CD, its certificate and the BharatKosh receipt	MS Word, without the witness portion; the certificate that the hard copy and the soft copy are the same; the forwarding letter to the Controller of Publication with a telephone number and email; the e-receipt

The proforma is where files are lost, and there are twelve to choose from. A married woman file typed on the ordinary change of name form, or the reverse, comes back. The Government charge already paid is not refunded, because BharatKosh payments are non-refundable. You then have six months to make good a shortcoming the Department points out, after which a fresh application with all new documents is required.

What to select on BharatKosh, field by field. Pay to the Department of Publication under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, and pick the Ministry, the Pay and Accounts Office and the Drawing and Disbursing Officer by their names in the dropdown, never by a code copied off a website. The codes printed for this office on different websites do not agree with each other, and money paid into the wrong head cannot be traced to your file. Read the amount on the portal on the day you pay, because it is revised each financial year.

How to read the published notice before you rely on it. Open the e-Gazette copy and check five things: that it says Part IV; the date of publication; her old full name exactly as her documents carry it; her new name, letter by letter; and the father or husband name and address. Then note the page number and the issue number, because that is what an office will quote back to you at verification.

The posting detail is on the sending the file to Delhi page, the wording on the proforma format page, the charge by category on the fee and undertaking page, the reasons files come back on the rejection reasons page, and the download on the download page.

Cost and time

What a Mother Name Affidavit Costs in Jharkhand

Cost and time for a mother name affidavit and the work around it in Jharkhand
Item	Cost	Time
The affidavit itself, any of the three types	Rs 100 non-judicial stamp paper as our safe default, plus the notary charge. The wording does not change the price, so pay for the right wording rather than the cheapest draft	The same day
A second original	Another stamp paper and attestation. Worth it, because offices keep the copy you hand in and you are left with nothing	The same visit
Where the office has its own format	Usually nothing extra. Banks like the State Bank of India publish theirs, and using it removes every argument about wording	Ask in writing, allow a few days for the reply
School or board correction that follows	The institution own charge, plus Rs 10 for an RTI application where an admission register page has to be obtained that way. We do not print school or board charges we have not verified	Set by the institution. We do not print a timeline we have not verified
Birth register correction that follows	The Registrar office own charge. A correction is made in the margin and the original entry is not altered	Set by the office
Government printing charge, only where she is genuinely changing her own name and a gazette is asked for	The adult guidelines print Rs 1,100 for a change of name with effect from 01.04.2016 to 31.03.2017, and Rs 3,500 for an Indian living abroad. Every category guidelines add that the charge varies each financial year and from case to case, so treat these as the order of the amount. What BharatKosh shows on the payment screen the day you pay is the figure that counts	Part IV publishes weekly, so allow several weeks from posting
Newspaper, in a gazette case only	Paid to the paper, charged by length	Same week
Post or courier to Delhi, in a gazette case only	Sent in her own name from any district, and keep the receipt	A few days each way
Our charge	Quoted on your papers before you pay anything, and confirmed in writing. We print no service price on any page of this site

Do not trust a figure printed on any website, including this one, on the day you pay. The Department own guidelines say the printing charge varies each financial year and from case to case, so the figures above are what the published guidelines show for 2016 to 2017 and are given so you know the order of the amount, not the amount. What BharatKosh shows when you reach the payment screen is the one that counts. Read it there and pay that.

For most families reading this page the honest total is a stamp paper and a notary, and nothing else. What makes a mother name case expensive is almost never the affidavit. It is swearing the wrong one, having it refused, and starting again. Our name change cost page sets out the line items in full.

Send the papers and we will draft it

Photograph the record that carries the wrong or different mother name, showing the entry clearly, because the affidavit has to quote it letter for letter. Then send her own documents: Aadhaar, PAN, voter card, bank passbook and her school certificate, because the correct form of her name is whatever most of her own papers carry today. If her name changed at marriage, add the marriage certificate if the family has one. If she has died, add the death certificate. Our first reply tells you which of the three situations you are in, who should depose, and the exact clause for your case. Where the office has its own format, we will tell you to use that instead of paying us for a draft. Details on the contact page.

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Set the record straight

Myths About a Mother Name Change Affidavit

Common beliefs about a mother name affidavit and what is actually correct
What people are told	What is actually so
There is one standard mother name affidavit format	There is not. Three different facts need three different clauses, and the wrong clause swears to something that did not happen. Decide the fact first, then draft
A child can swear an affidavit changing the mother name	Not on her own documents. Her record, her affidavit. A child may depose about the entry on the child own record, which is a different thing altogether
Her marriage name change is a mistake to be corrected	It is not a mistake. A marriage name change is a real change and needs change of name wording. Calling it a printing error in an affidavit is a false statement
A printing error needs a change of name affidavit	The opposite. A printing error needs the wrongly mentioned or printed as wording with a one and the same person line, and no sentence saying anyone changed a name
A notarised affidavit forces the office to update the record	It does not. An affidavit is a sworn statement that goes with an application. The office corrects its own record against documents it recognises, and the affidavit is only one paper in that file
Rs 500 stamp paper is safer than Rs 100	Paying more does not make an affidavit stronger. Rs 100 non-judicial stamp paper is our safe default. What makes it strong is correct wording, the right deponent and the right supporting papers
You need a gazette for a mother name affidavit	Almost never. A gazette is for a person changing her own name. A wrong parent entry on your certificate is a correction at the institution that issued it
A downloaded format is good enough	A downloaded format is a starting shape, not a case. It does not know which of the three situations you are in, whose record it is, or what the office asking for it will accept

The one test to apply before signing. Read the operative clause aloud and ask, is this sentence literally true? If the clause says she changed her name and she did not, do not sign it, however convenient it is. An affidavit is sworn, and a counter that spots a false clause does not just reject the paper, it slows the whole file.

Plain meanings

Key Terms in a Mother Name Affidavit

Key terms used in a mother name change or correction affidavit
Term	What it means in practice
Deponent	The person who swears the affidavit and signs it. On her own record that is your mother. On your record it is you
Operative clause	The one sentence that says what is actually being declared. It is the whole document, and it is what changes between the three situations
Wrongly mentioned or printed as	The wording for a clerical error. It states the entry as printed and the correct name, and says nothing about anybody changing a name
One and the same person	A declaration that two names belong to one woman. Used in a correction and used on its own where two proper forms are both in use
Change of name	The wording for a name that genuinely changed, most often at marriage. It declares the change and then ties both names to the same identical person
Non-judicial stamp paper	The paper an affidavit is typed on, bought in the deponent name. Rs 100 is our safe default across Jharkhand
Notary	The officer who attests the affidavit and enters it in a register. Enough for an ordinary correction or identity affidavit
Verification clause	The closing line saying the contents are true to the deponent knowledge and nothing material has been concealed. Signed and dated below the operative clause
Annexure	A document attached to the affidavit, such as her Aadhaar or a death certificate. Referred to inside the affidavit by name, not just clipped to it
Prescribed format	An office own affidavit form. Where one exists, it beats any draft, and asking for it in writing costs nothing
Received stamp	The office acknowledgement on your own copy of the application. Without it, an application never happened
Correction	Putting a record right against documents already held. Cheap, quick, publishes nothing

Coverage

Mother Name Affidavit Drafting Across Jharkhand

The stamp paper vendor and the notary are in your own district, and that part is local wherever you live. Deciding which of the three situations you are in, who should depose, and what the operative clause should say is done on your scans over WhatsApp, for every district in the state.

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District pages are linked from the services page.

FAQ

Mother Name Change Affidavit Format: Frequently Asked Questions

Is there one standard mother name affidavit format?+

No, and this is the whole point of this page. Three different facts need three different clauses. Her name may be wrongly printed, which is a correction. Her name may have genuinely changed at marriage, which is a change of name. Or two proper forms may both be in use, which is a one and the same person declaration. Decide which is true before anybody drafts anything.

What is the exact wording for a wrongly printed mother name?+

It should quote the entry exactly as printed, state the correct name, and say the two are one and the same person. The State Bank of India publishes an affidavit in this shape, with a field reading "my/our name/surname/father's name/mother's name ......... is wrongly mentioned /printed as". Crucially it contains no sentence saying anyone changed a name. Our own draft clause for this is set out on the page above.

My mother changed her name when she married. Is that a correction?+

No, it is a genuine change of name, and it should be sworn as one. This is the bucket that exists for mothers and barely exists for fathers. The Passport Seva proforma shows the shape: "I, (Old Name) (S/o, D/o, or W/o) (Name), resident of (full address) do hereby declare that I have changed my name from (Old Name) to (new/ Correct Name)", followed by confirmation that both names are the "same and one identical person".

Who should swear it, my mother or me?+

Go by whose record is being fixed. If the wrong entry is on your certificate, you depose and her documents go in as support. If the record being changed is her own, such as her bank account or her Aadhaar, she deposes and nobody can do it for her. Being her child gives you no standing to declare a change in her name.

My mother has died. Can I still get the affidavit made?+

Yes, where the wrong entry is on your record. You depose yourself, state the date of her death, annex the death certificate, and produce whatever of her documents the family holds. Do not draft anything in her voice, because an affidavit is sworn by a living person. Say plainly in it that she has died, because an office that discovers it later treats the whole file with suspicion.

Which stamp paper value should I use?+

Rs 100 non-judicial stamp paper is our safe default across Jharkhand, and it must be bought in the name of the person who will sign, not whoever goes to the vendor. Paying for a higher value does not make an affidavit stronger. Correct wording, the right deponent and the right annexures are what make it strong.

Will the affidavit alone get the record corrected?+

No. An affidavit never corrects anything by itself. It goes with a written application to the school, board, bank or Registrar, and the office corrects its own record against documents it recognises. Keep a copy of the application carrying the office received stamp, because without that the application never happened.

The bank says it has its own affidavit form. Should I use theirs?+

Yes, always. Where an office publishes a prescribed format, that beats any draft, because the clerk is matching your paper against a template. The State Bank of India publishes its Name Correction Affidavit openly. Ask every office in writing whether it has one, before paying anybody for a draft.

Which form of her name should the affidavit call correct?+

The form her own documents carry today. Lay out her Aadhaar, PAN, voter card, bank passbook and school certificate and see what most of them say. Picking a version from your record and working backwards to hers simply creates a fresh mismatch in her papers in place of the one in yours.

Do I need a gazette notification for this?+

Almost never. A gazette is for a person changing her own name, and it publishes a notice. A wrong parent entry on your certificate is a correction at the institution that issued it, and it publishes nothing. If somebody has quoted you a gazette file for a clerical mistake in a school register, ask what the notice would say and who it would be about.

Can one affidavit cover both my mother name and my father name?+

It can where both entries are wrong on the same record and the fact behind both is the same kind, usually a printing error. Keep them as separate numbered clauses, each quoting its own entry as printed. Do not mix a printing error for one parent with a genuine change of name for the other in a single clause, because the two statements contradict each other.

What does a mother name affidavit cost?+

For most families it is a stamp paper and a notary charge, and nothing else. Make a second original, because the office keeps the one you hand in. Where a school or board correction follows, that institution has its own charge, which we do not print because we have not verified it everywhere. What makes these cases expensive is never the affidavit, it is swearing the wrong one and starting again.

Who wrote and checked this page

Written and maintained by the Jharkhandnamechange.com documentation desk, led by founder Vipin Chauhan, B.Tech LL.B, with 5+ years filing with the Department of Publication. The change of name wording quoted on this page is taken from the Passport Seva name change proforma published by the Ministry of External Affairs, which reads "I, (Old Name) (S/o, D/o, or W/o) (Name), resident of (full address) do hereby declare that I have changed my name from (Old Name) to (new/ Correct Name)" and confirms both names as the "same and one identical person", and which also carries a version in which a parent or guardian declares on behalf of a minor. The wrongly printed wording is taken from the State Bank of India Name Correction Affidavit, whose field reads "my/our name/surname/father's name/mother's name ......... is wrongly mentioned /printed as" and whose operative line is that the two names are "the one and the same person". The draft clauses given on this page for the three situations are our own drafting, following the shape of those two published forms. They are not Government forms, no office is bound to accept any particular wording, and where an office publishes its own format that format should be used instead. That a mother name splits three ways rather than two, and the guidance on who should depose, is our own working knowledge from drafting these affidavits and not a published rule. We do not print notary, school, board or Registrar charges, which vary, and we do not print processing timelines we have not verified. We are a documentation consultancy and not advocates. Who we are is on the about page.

Last reviewed 21 September 2026 • 9540005002 • info@jharkhandnamechange.com • Jharkhandnamechange.com is a private documentation consultancy and is not the Department of Publication, the Controller of Publication, a court, a law firm or any Government office. This page is general information, not legal advice.

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Official Sources on Name Declaration Wording

Passport Seva name change proformaThe published Government proforma carrying the change of name wording and the same and one identical person confirmation, including the version for a minor.
Passport SevaWhere a passport application is made and where to ask, in writing, what a particular counter will accept.
State Bank of India Name Correction AffidavitA published prescribed format using the wrongly mentioned or printed as wording with a one and the same person operative line.
The Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969The Act behind a birth register, including Section 15 on correcting an entry, where a mother entry on a birth record is the problem.
Jharkhand Academic CouncilThe board that holds and corrects the school record where a parent name is wrongly printed on a certificate.
JharSewa, the Jharkhand Government service portalWhere Jharkhand certificates are applied for, and where to check what a particular certificate actually records.
The Gazette of IndiaWhere a published name change notice appears, in Part IV, in the separate case where she is changing her own name.
BharatKosh, the Non Tax Receipt PortalThe only route for the Government printing charge in a gazette case, and the only place the amount of the day can be read.

Quick Summary

A Mother Name Affidavit in Eight Lines

The short version

There is no single format. Three facts need three different clauses.
Wrongly printed means a correction, with no change of name sentence in it.
A marriage name change is a real change, not a clerical error.
Two proper forms in use needs only a one and the same person line.
Her record, her affidavit. Your record, your affidavit.
If she has died, you depose with the death certificate annexed.
Rs 100 stamp paper in the deponent name, and make two originals.
Ask the office in writing whether it has its own prescribed format.

Send the record and her documents, and we will tell you which of the three affidavits you actually need.

Most wasted affidavits are not badly typed. They are the wrong one, sworn by the wrong person. One look at the papers settles both questions before you buy a stamp paper.

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