Name Change in ABHA Health ID in Jharkhand
An ABHA is an Ayushman Bharat Health Account, and it has two parts that people constantly mix up. One is the ABHA number, which the Government's own health portal describes as "a 14 digit number that will uniquely identify you as a participant in India's digital healthcare ecosystem". The other is the ABHA address, described there as "a unique identifier (self declared username) that enables you to share and access your health records digitally", written in the form of a username followed by @abdm. The first one carries your name and you did not type it. The second one is the only thing on the account you actually chose. Work out which of the two is wrong before you do anything, because they have completely different answers.
In almost every case the name in your ABHA is the name in your Aadhaar, so the work is at Aadhaar and not at the health account. The reason is in how the account is made. The Government's health portal sets out the creation steps as entering the Aadhaar number, verifying the one time password sent to the phone linked with that Aadhaar, entering a mobile number to link with the ABHA, verifying a second one time password, and then creating the ABHA address. Your name never gets typed anywhere in that list. It arrives with the Aadhaar. So a misspelt ABHA is a misspelt Aadhaar wearing a different shirt. The official ABHA application, published by the National Health Authority, offers an "Option to Edit Profile details including address and update the mobile no or email with respective OTP validation", and you should notice what is not in that list. It is the same pattern this website has now found in one record after another. And then there is the part that makes this page different from every other page here. The Government's own description of the ABHA says "You can participate at your own free will and choose to create your ABHA number voluntarily. Also, at any time, you can also request for permanent deletion or temporary deactivation." You cannot delete a ration card, a land record or a job card. This is the one record on this website you are allowed to walk away from, which gives you three routes instead of the usual one. Read the rest of this page before you take the third one, because deleting an account that already carries your hospital records is not a spelling correction, it is a different decision altogether.
ABHA Number and ABHA Address: Two Different Things With Two Different Answers
People telephone us and say the name in their health card is wrong. The first question we ask back is which name, because an ABHA carries two identifiers and they behave in opposite ways.
| The ABHA number | The ABHA address |
|---|---|
| Described on the Government's health portal as "a 14 digit number that will uniquely identify you as a participant in India's digital healthcare ecosystem" | Described there as "a unique identifier (self declared username) that enables you to share and access your health records digitally" |
| The demographic details attached to it came in from the Aadhaar during creation. You never typed them | You typed it. The words self declared are the Government's, not ours, and they settle the question of who chose it |
| Looks like a string of fourteen digits and is the thing hospitals and health programmes actually quote | Looks like a username followed by @abdm, and is the easy to remember handle you share |
| If the name here is wrong, the Aadhaar is wrong. That is where the correction belongs and it is a route we describe in full on another page | If this is the thing you dislike, you are dealing with a username you picked, which is a different and much smaller problem |
| The official application lists an "Option to Edit Profile details including address and update the mobile no or email", and the name is not in that list | The same official listing describes creating an ABHA address with a mobile number, an email or an ABHA number, so the handle side is plainly meant to be chosen by you |
| Almost every caller means this one. A name on a health record that does not read the way the family writes it | Far fewer callers mean this one, and when they do, the conversation is usually over in two minutes |
Where the Name in Your ABHA Health ID Actually Came From
The fastest way to understand a wrong name in any record is to ask who typed it. For an ABHA the answer is unusually clear, because the creation steps are published and your name is not one of the things you are asked for.
| The published creation step | What it tells you about the name |
|---|---|
| Enter the Aadhaar number | This is the moment your identity enters the system. Everything the account knows about who you are starts here, which means the Aadhaar is the parent record |
| Verify the one time password sent to the phone linked with that Aadhaar | The system is confirming you are the holder of that Aadhaar. It is not asking you to confirm the spelling, and that difference is the whole of this page |
| Enter a mobile number to link with the ABHA, and verify a second one time password | Worth noting because this can be a different number from the Aadhaar linked one. It is a contact detail, not an identity detail |
| Create the ABHA address, the self declared username | The only free text you are asked to supply. If somebody tells you they typed your name into the health system, this is the only place they could have done it |
| Nowhere in those steps is a name field | So the name shown against the fourteen digit number was carried in. Correcting the health account without correcting its parent record is repainting a reflection |
| The application's editable profile list covers "address and update the mobile no or email with respective OTP validation" | Address here means a postal address, not the username. The name is absent from the editable list, exactly as the name is absent from the self update list on other national records we have written about |
| What we could not read | The official frequently asked questions page for the digital health mission would not open for us. So we print no correction form, no portal step, no fee and no timeline for a name change inside an ABHA, because we have not seen one stated by the Government |
ABHA Is the One Record on This Website You Are Allowed to Delete
Every other page here describes a record you are stuck with. You cannot delete a ration card because you dislike the spelling. You cannot delete a land record, a job card, a pension record or an Aadhaar. The ABHA is different, and the Government says so in plain words.
Correct the Aadhaar and let the account follow
This is the right route for nearly everybody. The name came in from the Aadhaar, so correcting the Aadhaar fixes the cause rather than the symptom, and it fixes every other record that reads the Aadhaar at the same time. Nothing is lost and nothing is unlinked.
Ask for temporary deactivation
The Government's own description says this may be requested at any time. It is a pause, not a cure. It is worth knowing about if you have a reason to stop the account being used while you sort out the record behind it, but it does not correct a spelling.
Ask for permanent deletion
Also stated as available at any time. This is an exit, not a correction. It is the option for a person who has decided the account is not for them, and it should be the last thing you consider rather than the first, for the reason in the warning below.
What deletion does not do
It does not correct your Aadhaar, and it does not correct a hospital's own file about you. A new account created from the same uncorrected Aadhaar will carry the same spelling, because the spelling is not coming from the health account. You would be back where you started.
The thing to weigh before deleting
The whole value of the account is that health records attach to it. The Government's news service has reported more than 42 crore health records linked to ABHA accounts. An account with your history attached to it is not the same as an empty one, and we cannot tell you what becomes of linked records on deletion because we have not seen that stated.
Our plain recommendation
Use route one. Correct the Aadhaar, then look at the health account again. Keep routes two and three in your pocket as things the Government says you are entitled to ask for, which is more than most records allow, rather than as the first move.
ABHA Is Also the Only Record Where You Decide Who Reads It
A wrong name on a ration card is an inconvenience. A wrong name on a health record can mean your own history does not travel with you, and the account is built around the idea that it should.
| What is officially stated | Why the spelling matters |
|---|---|
| The official application offers you the ability to "Own and Control access of your health records in terms of who can access, what type of health information can be accessed and for what duration" | This is a genuinely unusual power to hold over a Government linked record. Everything on this website is about records other people control. Here you control the sharing |
| There is an "Option to revoke consent to stop sharing of your health records after granting consent" | You can switch the sharing off again. Nothing else we have written about on this site can be un-shared once given, which is worth knowing before you worry about the account existing at all |
| The Government's health portal lists benefits including to "Establish unique identity across different healthcare providers" and to "Link all healthcare benefits ranging from public health programmes to insurance schemes" | Unique identity across providers is the point. A name that reads one way at a district hospital and another way on an insurance record is precisely what this is meant to end |
| The Government's news service has reported more than 42 crore health records linked to these accounts, along with several lakh registered facilities and healthcare professionals | This is not a pilot any more. The record is being read by real hospitals, so a mismatch is a live problem rather than a theoretical one |
| The World Health Organization's India office has published a Chhattisgarh account in which, in one district, follow up among patients linked to an ABHA reached 68 percent against 37 percent for patients not linked, with disease control at 49 percent against 29 percent, as of February 2025 | We flag what this is and is not. It is an international organisation's published account from another State, not a Government of India record and not a Jharkhand figure. We print it because it is the clearest published statement we found that the linkage itself changes outcomes |
| The consequence for a family in Jharkhand | If the name does not match, the linking is what fails first. You keep the account and lose the benefit of it, quietly, without anybody telling you |
ABHA, the Ayushman Card and a Health Insurance Policy Are Not the Same Thing
Two of these carry the words Ayushman Bharat, which is why families arrive certain they have one card when they are holding another. The difference decides which page you should be reading.
| What it is | What it does, and where the name lives |
|---|---|
| ABHA, the Ayushman Bharat Health Account | A record identifier. Fourteen digits, plus a username you chose. It does not pay a hospital bill. It lets your history follow you. The name came from your Aadhaar, and this page is about that |
| The Ayushman Bharat treatment card | An entitlement, resting on a household having been listed. A completely different question, with a completely different reason for a wrong name, which our Ayushman Bharat card name change page deals with at length |
| A health insurance policy from a company | A contract. The name is whatever the proposal form said, and correcting it is the insurer's own process, covered on our health and motor insurance policy page |
| How to tell which one you are holding | Count the digits and look for the @abdm style username. If that is there, you are holding an ABHA. If the card talks about treatment at empanelled hospitals up to an amount, you are holding the other one |
| Why it matters so much | Because the correction routes are completely different. Chasing an entitlement listing when your problem is an Aadhaar spelling wastes weeks, and so does the reverse |
How to Fix a Wrong Name in an ABHA Health ID in Jharkhand
Work out which of the two identifiers is wrong
The fourteen digit ABHA number, or the self declared address that looks like a username. They have different answers, and getting this wrong sends you down a route that cannot help you.
Put the ABHA beside the Aadhaar
Read both names letter by letter. In nearly every case they will match, which tells you the health account is working correctly and the argument is with the Aadhaar.
Then put both beside the rest of the family papers
The school certificate, the voter card, the bank passbook. Whichever record disagrees with everything else is the one to correct. Decide this before you spend anything.
Correct the Aadhaar if that is the odd one out
Through the proper route. Aadhaar charges per attempt with no refund and limits how often a name may be updated, so it is worth getting the request right the first time. Our Aadhaar page sets it out.
Do not correct the Aadhaar if the Aadhaar is right
If the Aadhaar carries the spelling your family actually uses, leave it alone and correct whatever record disagrees with it instead. We have watched people damage a correct Aadhaar to match an old wrong entry elsewhere.
Check the ABHA again after the Aadhaar is corrected
Open it and read it. Do not assume it refreshed by itself, and do not assume it did not. Look, because you will want to know before a hospital does.
If only the username is wrong, treat it as the small job it is
The ABHA address is described by the Government as a self declared username. It is a handle. It is not the name on your medical record, and nothing serious rests on it.
Use the profile edit for what it actually covers
The official application lists an option to edit profile details including address and to update the mobile number or email with a one time password. Keep the mobile number current, because everything in this system arrives by one time password.
Check the parents' names and the date of birth too
They travelled in from the same Aadhaar. A single Aadhaar correction can settle all of them at once, and our date of birth correction page covers that side.
Think hard before deactivating or deleting
Both are offered by the Government at any time. Neither corrects a spelling, and an account with your history attached to it is not the same as an empty one. Use these as an exit, never as a repair.
Manage your consent deliberately
Grant access for the treatment in front of you, and use the stated option to revoke consent afterwards. This is a power you hold over almost no other record described on this website.
Keep every acknowledgement
The Aadhaar update slip above all. The people who read your health records later were not there when they were made, and a paper that shows what you corrected and when is worth keeping.
Central Gazette Process for a Name From Jharkhand, and Where It Fits a Health Record
No district in Jharkhand has a gazette counter, so a genuine 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 File Sent From Jharkhand
Settle the final name first
Letter by letter, with the spacing you want, and then use exactly that everywhere, Aadhaar included. A corrigendum after publication is a second fee and a second wait.
Pick the category, then its proforma
A genuine change of name is change of Name Adult or Major. A wrongly typed spelling is the public notice for a wrongly written name. Twelve categories exist and only one is yours.
Type the proforma in duplicate
Two originals with two witnesses giving signature, full name, address and mobile number on both copies. A change of name is signed in the old name; a public notice is signed in your own name.
Fill the employment field if it is a change of name
The adult proforma asks for the post of the applicant and the office or company name. A student or a homemaker should still complete it rather than leaving it blank, because a blank field brings the file back.
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 residential 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 update in the right order
Check every word the day it publishes, download the e-Gazette copy, and then correct the Aadhaar first, because that is the record the health account was built from. Everything downstream, the ABHA included, follows the Aadhaar rather than the gazette.
The Five Papers in the File, and What Is Checked 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 your documents carry it; the new full name exactly as settled; the father or husband name; the full address with pin code; the post and office or company name where it is a change of name; the signature in the right name for the category; two witnesses complete with signature, full name, address and mobile number |
| 2. The affidavit or undertaking | The same names and address as the proforma, word for word, with wording matching the category. 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 names carried; the father or husband name and residential address; dated within the last year |
| 4. Photographs, identity proof and any category paper | Two self attested passport photographs; self attested identity and address proof matching the proforma address; both witnesses proofs; and, in a public notice file, the attested photocopy of the connected document carrying the error |
| 5. The CD, its certificate and the BharatKosh receipt | MS Word, without the witness portion, with the name typed in place of the signature; 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 posting detail is on the sending the file to Delhi page, the change of name wording on the proforma format page and the public notice wording on the public notice proforma 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.
What an ABHA Health ID Name Correction Costs in Jharkhand
| Item | Cost | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Reading the ABHA against the Aadhaar | Nothing, and it settles the whole question for most people. If the two match, the health account is behaving correctly and your work is at Aadhaar | Ten minutes |
| Working out which of the two identifiers is wrong | Nothing. The fourteen digit number carries the name that came from the Aadhaar; the address is a self declared username. Two different problems, two different answers | Two minutes |
| Correcting the Aadhaar, where that is the record that is wrong | Aadhaar charges a fee per attempt with no refund and limits how often a name may be updated. This is the only payment most readers of this page will ever make, and it fixes many records at once | Set by the enrolment centre |
| A name change inside the ABHA itself | We print no fee, because we verified none. The official frequently asked questions page for the digital health mission would not open for us, and the application's own editable list covers the postal address, the mobile number and the email, not the name | Not stated by any source we could read |
| Temporary deactivation or permanent deletion | The Government's description says these may be requested at any time, and states no charge that we saw. Neither of them corrects a spelling, so neither belongs in a costing for a name correction | Not stated in the text we read |
| Anybody offering to edit the name in your health account for a fee | Ask which screen they will use. The name was never typed during creation; it came from the Aadhaar. Somebody charging to change it inside the app should be able to say exactly how, and most cannot | Not applicable |
| Government printing charge, only in a genuine change of a person's own name | The guidelines print Rs 1,100 for an adult change of name and Rs 1,400 for a public notice, for FY 2016 to 2017, each with the caveat that the charge varies each financial year and from case to case. 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 |
| 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 | |
Myths About ABHA Health ID Name Corrections
| What people are told | What is actually so |
|---|---|
| The name in the health account is a separate record that can be edited there | The published creation steps never ask you for a name. It arrives with the Aadhaar, and the application's own editable list covers the postal address, the mobile number and the email. The name is not on that list |
| Delete the account and make a new one, that will fix the spelling | It will not. A new account is created from the same Aadhaar, so it carries the same spelling. Ask anybody offering this what will be different the second time |
| You cannot get out of this system once you have joined | You can, and the Government says so: "You can participate at your own free will and choose to create your ABHA number voluntarily. Also, at any time, you can also request for permanent deletion or temporary deactivation." That is genuinely unusual |
| The ABHA and the Ayushman treatment card are the same card | They are not. One is a record identifier, the other is an entitlement. They carry a wrong name for completely different reasons and are corrected by completely different routes |
| A gazette notification will change the name in the health account | It will not, by itself. The health account reads the Aadhaar. A gazette is evidence a genuine name change rests on, and the Aadhaar correction is what actually moves the health record |
| The username with @abdm in it is my official name | It is a self declared username, in the Government's own words. It is a handle for sharing records. Nothing medical or legal rests on what you typed there |
| A mismatch does not matter because nobody reads this | They do now. The Government's news service has reported more than 42 crore health records linked to these accounts, with several lakh facilities and healthcare professionals registered. A mismatch fails quietly, while you keep the card |
| Change the Aadhaar to match whatever the health account shows | Only if the Aadhaar is the wrong one. If the Aadhaar already carries the spelling your family uses, leave it alone. We have watched people damage a correct Aadhaar to chase a wrong entry somewhere else |
| Once records are shared with a hospital they stay shared | Not necessarily. The official application describes an "Option to revoke consent to stop sharing of your health records after granting consent". Very few people know they are allowed to do that |
| The websites offering ABHA name change services are official | Many are not. A great many pages on this subject carry official looking names and exist to collect visitors. A Government page address ends in a Government domain, and the Government pages we could read do not set out a name correction at all |
Key Terms in an ABHA Health ID Name Correction
| Term | What it means in practice |
|---|---|
| ABHA | Ayushman Bharat Health Account. An account under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission that lets your health records be stored and shared digitally |
| ABHA number | "A 14 digit number that will uniquely identify you as a participant in India's digital healthcare ecosystem." The part that carries the name that came from your Aadhaar |
| ABHA address | "A unique identifier (self declared username) that enables you to share and access your health records digitally." Written as a username followed by @abdm. The only part you chose |
| Self declared | The Government's own phrase for the address. It is the word that tells you who is responsible for that one, and by contrast who is not responsible for the other |
| Linking | Attaching health records to the account so they travel with you. The thing a name mismatch breaks first, and it breaks quietly |
| Consent | Your permission for somebody to see your records, described as covering who may access them, what type of information, and for what duration |
| Revoking consent | Switching that permission off again after granting it. A power you hold over almost no other record on this website |
| Temporary deactivation | A pause on the account, which the Government says may be requested at any time. Not a correction |
| Permanent deletion | Leaving the system, also stated as available at any time. An exit, not a repair, and a new account from the same Aadhaar carries the same spelling |
| One time password | The code sent to your phone. Everything in this system runs on it, which is why the linked mobile number is worth keeping current |
| The Ayushman Bharat treatment card | A different thing with a similar name. An entitlement to treatment, not a record identifier. The commonest confusion on this subject |
| Source record | The record the name really lives in. For an ABHA it is the Aadhaar, and it is the only thing on this page that can actually be corrected |
ABHA Health ID Name Help Across Jharkhand
The office that matters for this job is the Aadhaar enrolment centre, and that is local to you in every district. What we do sits before that visit. We read the health account against the Aadhaar and the rest of the family's papers, tell you whether the problem is the fourteen digit number or the username, tell you which record is actually the odd one out so that you correct the right one the first time, and draft the Aadhaar request. We will also tell you plainly when the answer is that the health account is working correctly and nothing needs doing to it at all. That is done on your scans over WhatsApp, for every district. Send a photograph of whichever card you are holding and we will start by telling you which card it is.
District pages are linked from the services page.
Send the ABHA and the Aadhaar
Send a photograph of the health account exactly as it appears to you, and the Aadhaar. Send any other card you think is connected, because the first thing we do is tell you which card you are actually holding, and families are very often holding the Ayushman treatment card and calling it the health account, or the other way round. Add the school certificate, the voter card or the bank passbook if the household name is written differently in different places. Our first reply tells you whether the problem is the fourteen digit number or the username, which single record is the odd one out, and whether anything needs doing at all. If the health account matches the Aadhaar, we will say so and tell you there is nothing here to pay us for. Details on the contact page.
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ABHA Health ID Name Change: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I change my name in my ABHA health ID?
Is there an official online form to correct the name in an ABHA?
What is the difference between the ABHA number and the ABHA address?
Can I just delete my ABHA and make a new one with the right name?
Is making an ABHA compulsory?
Is the ABHA the same as my Ayushman Bharat card?
Do I need a gazette notification to correct my ABHA?
Does a wrong name in the ABHA actually cause any harm?
Can I control who sees my health records?
My Aadhaar is correct but the health account shows an old spelling.
Somebody is charging to change the name in my health account. Should I pay?
How much of this can you actually do for us?
Official Sources on ABHA and the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission
- Health ID page, Online Registration System, Government of IndiaFor the fourteen digit ABHA number, the self declared ABHA address, the creation steps, the stated benefits, and the statement that participation is voluntary and that permanent deletion or temporary deactivation may be requested at any time.
- Ayushman Bharat Digital MissionThe mission itself. Its frequently asked questions page would not open for us, which is why this page prints no correction form, portal step, fee or timeline for a name change inside an ABHA.
- National Health AuthorityThe authority behind the mission and the publisher of the official ABHA application, for the consent controls, the revoke option and the editable profile list that does not include the name.
- Unique Identification Authority of IndiaFor the Aadhaar name update route, the charge per attempt and the limits on how often a name may be updated. This is the record almost every ABHA name problem actually belongs to.
- Ministry of Health and Family WelfareFor the wider health programme framework that the digital mission and the treatment scheme both sit within.
- Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya YojanaThe treatment scheme, which is a different thing from the health account despite the shared name, and the source of most of the confusion this page tries to clear up.
- World Health Organization, IndiaFor the Chhattisgarh district account of follow up and disease control among patients linked to an ABHA. An international organisation's publication, not a Government of India record, and from another State.
- Government of JharkhandFor the State health department and the district offices behind hospital and health scheme records in this State.
- Department of PublicationFor the twelve gazette categories and their proformas, in the separate case where somebody's own name is genuinely being changed.
- BharatKosh, the Non Tax Receipt PortalThe only route for the Government printing charge since October 2018, and the only place the amount of the day can be read.
An ABHA Name Problem in Eight Lines
The short version
- An ABHA has two parts and you only chose one of them.
- The fourteen digit number carries the name from your Aadhaar.
- No creation step ever asked you to type a name.
- So correct the Aadhaar, and the health account follows.
- Deleting and recreating changes nothing, same Aadhaar.
- You may deactivate or delete at any time, but that is an exit.
- You control who reads your records, and may revoke it.
- A mismatch breaks the linking quietly, while you keep the card.
Before you pay anybody to edit your health account, send us a photograph of it.
We will tell you which card you are holding, whether the problem is the number or the username, and whether the Aadhaar behind it is the one that needs correcting. If nothing needs doing, we will say so.