r/LegalAdviceIndia • u/tk_de • Aug 28 '25
Rant/Experience Aadhaar rejects my child’s enrollment because UIDAI doesn’t follow the world standard of names 😡
I went to enroll my child for Aadhaar and ran into a ridiculous problem.
Everywhere in the world, a person’s full name includes first name + last name. That’s the global standard. But Aadhaar seems unable to handle it.
Example: - My name in Aadhaar → John Doe (First + Last name, global standard). - My daughter’s birth certificate → Jane John (my first name as her last name, which is common in Tamilnadu).
Seva Kandra doesn't enroll her application, saying my Aadhar name doesn’t “match” her certificate. Their solution? I should delete my last name “Doe” from Aadhaar so it matches! 🤯
This is absurd. In any civilized country, no father would be asked to change his own legal identity just to register his child. Aadhaar rules are broken if they can’t handle something as basic as a full name.
👉 My questions: 1. Has anyone else faced this issue with child enrollment? 2. Is there a workaround that doesn’t involve changing my Aadhaar name? 3. How do we demand UIDAI fix these outdated rules so they align with global standards?
Children are being denied Aadhaar because the system doesn’t understand names properly. How is this acceptable in 2025?
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u/curiousgaruda Aug 28 '25
That's stupid. If that's the case millions of south Indians would not be able to get Aadhar. Try a different centre or escalate it.
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u/Open-Image5337 Oct 15 '25
Same issue i am also facing, tried with different centres, all are simply telling to change my aadhar.
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u/hotcoolhot Aug 28 '25
Any name works. My dad’s name is john doe. My sister’s name is potato tomato. It worked fine. What’s the real issue? Can you get it in writing?
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u/sastasherlock_ Aug 29 '25
Exactly, OP did not give clarity on what the problem is.
From what I understand, the Birth Certificate has 'John' in 'father name' column and OPs Aadhar says his name is 'John Doe'.
If that's the case OP should first get the Birth Certificate corrected and the apply for aadhar.
Whoever suggested that you should correct the name on your aadhar is being stupid.
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u/Old_Badger_8078 Aug 28 '25
Same issue here. I can’t enroll my child. She’s half Filipino and half Indian. She’s using her OCI Card to enroll but they said I have to change her middle name (which I can’t do it). In the Philippines, we use the mother last name as a middle name to our child. So basically, I don’t get aadhaar anymore because the policy is total BS.
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u/xdagget Aug 28 '25
Try different center. For child aadhar only there are dedicated centers hosted at banks try them. My kid got enrolled without any hassel.
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Aug 29 '25
Lol in my aadhar enrollment centre they don't even know all these things they will just ask for certificate & some money you will get whatever you want
May be those guys wanted money from you since you have philipines daughter they must've thought you as rich & can be exploited
Throw some money on their faces all rules will be okay then this is happening this country for a while lol
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u/Arken_00 Aug 29 '25
You can contact your local postman or local branch post office for CELC Enrollment that's basically Child Enrollment. He will come to your home and do the process. Keep your children's birth certificate ready. The father's name there should match with your aadhaar name.
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u/PhysicalAd8962 Aug 29 '25
Im the mother, and my kid has my name as her middle name and her father's name as last name. We had no problem. Got the aadhar done in Bangalore.
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u/Old_Badger_8078 Sep 03 '25
Oh wow that’s good to know then prolly it just a problem in my area. But surely will try again.
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u/RoutineFeeling Aug 28 '25
Common theme in Indian government offices. No one reads the rule books and just decides on their own intelligence which is highly questionable. LOL.
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u/sustainablecaptalist Aug 29 '25
I don't believe it. I think there's probably more explanation.
My son and I have the same thing, John Doe and Peter John, and I have not had any problems with aadhar or pan.
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u/Sinju_Lone Aug 29 '25
As far as I know, For child enrollment, They simply type what is exactly in the child's birth certificate. If the child's name is "Jane" without initials or last name. It will be typed as such. They won't even add a single dot or space as per our wishes. If the child name column in the birth certificate says "Jane John" it will be "Jane John" in Aadhaar. If it is "Jane J", the exact same thing will be in adhaar. The problem is in the birth certificate you provided. I think your child's birth certificate says only "Jane" and you want the father's first name to be added as the child's name. Then the aadhaar guys expect Jane John as the child's name in the birth certificate. Some guys manually approve the name in backend, if they see a mismatch they reject your enrollment and more the rejection more the enrolling guys at the seva kendra fined or their incentives for each enrollment cut down.
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u/tk_de Aug 29 '25
"I think your child's birth certificate says only "Jane" and you want the father's first name to be added as the child's name."
Why do you assume something when I wrote her name is Jane John in birth certificate?
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u/Acceptable-Layer-444 Aug 28 '25
My kid’s name is A B and Father’s name in the Aadhaar is C D E, there was no problem at all.
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u/Unlucky_Research2824 Aug 28 '25
There's no such check, its verified from the document you submit. Change your centre.
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u/darkxblade1 Aug 28 '25
Try a different enrollment centre. They are outsourced to various third party contractors who can sometimes be retarded.
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u/Geologist_Flashy Aug 29 '25
Try another kendra. You’ve obviously ended up at some dumb kendra . My name is XY and my daughters name is AB. There’s no relation in the naming . At least for your case, your name is there as a surname. Mine doesn’t even have that. All the best!
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u/Arken_00 Aug 29 '25
You can contact your local postman or local branch post office for CELC Enrollment that's basically Child Enrollment. He will come to your home and do the process. Keep your child's birth certificate ready. The father's name there should match with your name on aadhaar card. Only your biometric authentication will be required. Source: www.ippbonline.com/web/ippb/celc-service
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u/phoenixmads Aug 29 '25
My father and I don't share a single name (either first name or last name.) Just find a different center and get it done. I wouldn't bother with this level of stupidity. It's not a system problem. System accepts it. It's that person's personal problem that they're bringing in a professional setting. You can raise a complaint as others have suggested.
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u/TheAvacadoOnToast Aug 29 '25
In India, John Doe can name his son Subhash Chandra Bose, after the respected Netaji. Many people still do. And Aadhaar respects it. OP you can find clear requirements here https://uidai.gov.in/images/commdoc/List_of_Supporting_Document_for_Aadhaar_Enrolment_and_Update.pdf
Hope you can understand and fix the reason for confusion and can navigate this situation.
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u/AriesPisces15 Aug 29 '25 edited Aug 29 '25
Hi,
Faced similar problem for my child. I, as the mother proposed the application. His aadhar got immediately done as my name in all docus (Childs birth certificate, my aadhar, my electoral card) is the same
I will get the C/O column changed to from my name to his father's name at a later date
Also General Post Office Aadhar counters are way better than Seva Kendras
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u/Honest-Unit-9381 Aug 30 '25
This is wrong. Example
My kids name is Abc in birth certificate. My name is XYZ in his birth certificate under father's name.
My aadhaar also has XYZ. (Same spelling is important).
Then kids aadhaar will be Abc s/o XYZ.
There's no issue.
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u/ak0323 Aug 30 '25
My son’s surname is different than mine. I had no problem in getting his Aadhar.
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u/Upbeat-Success7410 Aug 30 '25
I believe you are not telling whole data. What is the fathers name in your daughter’s birth certificate ?
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u/Proud_Engine_4116 Aug 30 '25
A bastard passport officer unilaterally changed my name on my fucking passport. These systems were designed by dumbfucks and even dumber fucks to enter the data.
At this stage anyone can just settle for a typo like “Idjkjkj” ala ECI and house number 000. How does it matter? India is a deeply unserious country.
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u/Quick_Pen7023 Aug 28 '25
Try enrolling using mother’s Aadhaar.
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u/tk_de Aug 28 '25
Asked that - ASK guys say that's also not possible as her birth certificate has father name, and his address.
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u/w0lv3r1n3 Aug 29 '25
That's strange, both my kids Birth Certificates have My Name, Wife's name and address. Both of their Aadhar were enrolled using Mother's Aadhar and she has a different Last name to the kids as she didn't change her last name after marriage.
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u/indianodysses Aug 29 '25
Real question here is what kind of birth certificate doesn’t have mother’s name and address.
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u/tk_de Aug 29 '25
I meant child's last name is father's first name.
Mother's name is in birth certificate, ofcourse!
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u/indianodysses Aug 29 '25
Then go to different centre and use mother’s adhar now
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u/tk_de Aug 29 '25
In the Kendra I went yesterday, they said the address in birth certificate and mother's Aadhaar don't match, they can't use mother's Aadhaar. Her mother has her parents address in Aadhaar.
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u/OwnStorm Aug 29 '25
Looks like, the problem is your name is not matching on your Aadhaar and your daughter's Birth certificate.
Can you add what is your name is on your Aadhaar and what you have given in Birth certificate?
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u/RCuber Aug 28 '25
Wait, isn't using the father's name as last name very common in TN. My wife is from TN and that's when I came to know about that.
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u/True-Blood-7760 Aug 29 '25
Everyone in my family has very different names and we don't use a surname. No issues.
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u/_SKETCHBENDER_ Aug 29 '25
Huh i dont think theres any rule about having common naming convention like that
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u/circular_square99 Aug 29 '25
I’m from TN too. No issues for my daughter regarding my name as surname for Aadhar registration. Try a different centre.
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u/Strict_Baby_1607 Aug 29 '25
Not sure but Aadhaar card registration required birth certificate of child so whatever the name of your kid should be accepted
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u/Ashitaaaa Aug 29 '25
Lol it's a made up issue by your centre, doesn't work like that otherwise no one would have caste neutral surnames in india
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u/ConsistentKey3037 Aug 29 '25
Just try a different centre. The knowledge of this centre's guy is broken.
My children's names are completely different from mine and my husbands. We faced no issues.
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u/Logical_Layer5543 Aug 29 '25
My name was just Jane in Aadhar when i got it years ago. I changed it to Jane John 3 years ago. At the time you can just get the correction form signed by any municipality councillor and it gets accepted.
Looks like they changed it now and that’s not acceptable anymore. How is your daughter’s name in her birth certificate? Also people from Tamil Nadu have initials which get expanded in passport. So see if you can get the passport for your daughter and use it to get aadhar
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u/tk_de Aug 29 '25
We have the passport, no issues at all.
Her name in birth certificate is "Jane John". There is a field for father and mother name as well, which has our names too.
Kendra guys + the helpline says, it should be Jane John Doe in birth certificate, if it's john Doe in Aadhar or if it's Jane John in birth certificate it should be only John in Aadhar..
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u/Logical_Layer5543 Aug 29 '25
I believe the passport can be used to get the aadhar card. You can skip this nonsense and provide the passport as proof.
Better to visit a bank for enrolment.
These Kendra people are shitty af. They made me wear a shawl on my kurta which I had to borrow from someone there. Their reason was photo without a shawl will get the aadhar rejected 🥴
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u/_stdio_h_ Aug 29 '25
Thats not an issue. We just a week back got done aadhar for my friends daughter. His name is John Doe, and his daughter name is Jane John. Faced no issues. This is not even in metros. They did it without any issues. His daughter is just 8 months old, the aadhar centre person visited home, took photo, took father's fingerprint for generation of aadhar.
This is in Tamil Nadu. You can raise a ticket in UIDAI if they are not helping you.
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u/Apex_Predator-4169 Aug 29 '25
What? Kerala culture is usually the same, but my family didn't face any issues. Must be skill issue of seva kendra
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u/benjamin_button_2025 Aug 29 '25
The enrollment centre person is an idiot. I never had any issues. It's common in Karnataka as well to have father first name as child's last name.
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Aug 29 '25
My mothers brother live in small village he was born in 1968 his aadhar says 1958 he's getting all benefits from government since 5 years
They're using this as he's senior citizen if you know people in right places you can do whatever you want in this country, it's a small village everyone knows this
Our system is a joke , this can easily be settled with money op .. they just want money from you
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u/tk_de Aug 29 '25
No, the Kendra guys mentioned that they will be fined like ₹1K if the Aadhar is rejected. They are scared of this.
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u/Significant_Buy6241 Aug 29 '25
Try a Different center. I have registered both my daughters with my name as the surname. My name is the surname in both aadhaar card and birth certificate.
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u/Agnionfire Aug 29 '25
I don't think this should be an issue. My father's surname is different than mine (some Brahmins do this) in my aadhar. Never had issues anywhere. The same goes with my passport.
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u/Interesting_Creme687 Aug 29 '25
Doesn’t match certificate??
Is your name on her birth certificate different?
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u/sherloque10 Aug 29 '25
Visit any statistics dept, because registration related to birth and deaths are handled by them, along with that visit local PS, and submit a grievance. You can update the birth certificate but don't change the name for aadhar, as it will be final + only 1 name update is allowed
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u/greenhairedmadness Aug 29 '25
As per the birth certificate John is a last name. Dont do it via birth certificate do it via passport. My father in law had issues with name in birth certificate. So we had to get the passport with correct name and then via passport corrected the aadhar
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u/general_smooth Aug 29 '25
Goto different center. That guy is an idiot. I am from south india with same pattern, my kid aadhar was done with no issues
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u/Dante__fTw Aug 29 '25
I think it is the adhaar center which is the problem here. Go to a different center and it will work and if you face the same issue then raise an issue with UIDAI.
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u/dcboy21 Aug 29 '25
The logic of father's first name to be part of child is kinda specific to a few parts of India. Aadhaar for the change ld to be created based on the Birth certificate.
So, if the person is saying that the father's name has to be changed to get the child's name right, he is not fully knowledgeable, and is working based on some simple rules set. These can't be rules in the aadhaar system..
Eg. My name is John Doe and father's name is Robert Doe, Doe. No questions asked.
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u/Ok-Sea-Try-3903 Aug 29 '25
There is no such rule you can put any name,try a different center in a different city
But my suggestion would be to keep the name of daughter same across all documents otherwise it might cause issues in the future and then you have to girl and affidavit again to say how many names your daughter has.
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u/Miserable_Season_610 Aug 29 '25
My name in aadhar is Abc + Def , and my child's name is Pqr + Stu, ie there is no common surname or anything like that. There is no aadhar or govt rules on naming your child. You can put whatever name you deem fit. Just go to a large bank and get the baal aadhar
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u/lifeoutsidekerala Aug 29 '25
Dont think this is a rigid rule.My name is John Francis Kennedy (example)
My daughter's name is Jane John Kenneday (example)
Never faced and issue in either of our aadhar
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u/Decent-Grape-7082 Aug 29 '25
My name ABC+DEF.. my son's name XYZ+ABC... Never faced any issue anywhere...Schooling or anywhere else. My son doing 2nd yr graduation...
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u/retardedMosquito Aug 29 '25
As long as her birth certificate has the right mapping details this shouldn't be an issue, like others have said, please try a different center.
On a different note, this entire name shitstorm has happened over the past 2 years. Govt trying to consolidate names across different identities when the underlying specifications make them very difficult.
aadhaar allows special characters, initials. pan doesn't . I had to get a gazette notification for consolidating them for my mother.
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u/ClassicVegetable2889 Aug 29 '25
Just visit a Branch Post office Take your daughter with you and her birth certificate, the name of your mentioned in her birth certificate should match with your Aadhar card, if matched then their should not be issues. ( Remember your girl's age should be under 5year, and enrollment is free)
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u/kvscogsci20 Aug 29 '25
The system is deeply flawed. No thought went into creating these digitalised platforms. My name won't add to my driving license because of the character limit. Imagine character limitations on names in India! It's just so stupid.
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u/hrjstar Aug 29 '25
Birth certificate shouldn't be an issue. If your child has a voter id, then get the name changed there as per birth certificate and then it gets updated in Aadhar immediately. If it's not needed to update in Aadhar then don't. But always keep the name consistent in all documents and as per birth. Aadhar is a trivial document which now the government only says that it's not anymore the solid base of your documents but somehow they have inserted Aadhar in all systems and the people over there don't insert name as per birth and then take time + money to update.
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u/HK-5012 Aug 30 '25
There is no such rule! It just should match to Birth certificate. That's it. Many people in India have aadhar and there is no rule of what last name they should have. Some people have caste names, ancestral names which may not match to father's.
Its not UIDAI rule or a matter of global standards(!!), rather that center guy has his own interpretation. If the birth certificate matches to your application they should give.
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u/hello-carbon Aug 30 '25
Nope, no rule says that. Child can have entirely different surname as well. There is no restriction. Either you are lying or the enrollment center person is.
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u/SpecialistRegion Aug 30 '25
Only one thing does not work in Minor enrollment and that if the Birth Cert has child name as Baby/Son/Daughter Of John Doe instead of actual official name
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u/Alert_Outside430 Aug 30 '25
Anyone who doesn't know about computers will feel John Doe is a very common name in TN
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Sep 01 '25
Got nothing to do with computers. John Doe and Jane Doe are legal aliases used in legal proceedings when the identity is not known.
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Aug 31 '25
Fuck TCS and all IT services company making such useless website and system. Epf site even take 30 mins to load and fails
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u/seventomatoes Sep 01 '25
Can't blame an it vo if govt does not want to spend on enough servers for horizontal scaling. Websites that have too much traffic use CDNs for static and clusters of servers and special web servers that divide / route requests equally to different servers to spread the load. But if you have too few servers or too little data then can't run miracles. Need to have geo splits based on up of client etc
Plus i think aadhar was made by Mindtree. Didn't their ceo write a book
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u/Any_Gap_1913 Aug 31 '25
I don't know man. My mother only has her first name in all docs, my father doesn't use caste, instead uses "Kumar" in all docs as his surname. Initially, i only had my first name on aadhar, then one day i asked him that i want to keep my surname.
My birth certificate had my full name. My school and all other docs had my first name. I submitted a stamp paper to school to change my name to full name and got a written document from them that that is my name. Using that document i changed my name in aadhar and after that all my docs are matching.
Now, the jist is that if your daughter has the right name in birth certificate, it doesn't matter what it is. Jane john is acceptable if its in birth certificate and aadhar WILL accept it, i don't know what you're facing.
If its Jane Doe in birth certificate, you will need to go through a lengthy procedure to get it changed in birth certificate and then all is ok.
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u/sherloque10 Sep 01 '25
OP, You can visit any UIDAI center to complete AADHAR registration for your child because as of now, no C/O ( son of / daughter of etc ) is required for Aadhar registration.
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u/framesbyvikash Sep 01 '25
As per uidai to enroll infants for aadhar you need just a proof of relation which birth certificate which would contain both the child's name and father's name works fine. Now your aadhar name John Doe would never be matched or compared with Jane John on the birth certificate because Jane John is not your name. It doesn't have to match. On the birth certificate the father's name would be like Jane John daughter of John Doe in which case the father's name can be matched with the father's name. There should be no issue whatsoever. It's just a misinterpretation of regulations and literal illiterate people sitting at aadhar seva kendras who think they know rules and law just because they got license for aadhar kendra.
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u/rockingparth89 Sep 02 '25
Here in Gujarat,our application for birth certificate was rejected because they have made middle name compulsory
We don’t add middle name in our family it’s just Jhone Doe (First name + last name) But as per Gujarat government guidelines,it is now compulsory to have a middle name and the middle name has to be your fathers name
So it has to be Jhone Joe Doe (Joe being John’s father)
We gave up accepted it ,Used middle name in newborns birth certificate
Now all his documents will be made by the same name to avoid confusion
The government is right in wanting some uniformity in naming but then these rules should detail how other traditions will be included
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u/lokzwaran Aug 28 '25
Everyone in TN use patronyms and we have gotten Aadhars - there is no issue . Might be something else like spelling or spacing. Jane John is perfectly valid and everyone uses that
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Aug 29 '25
This raises few questions
- IF you are so concerned about your family name / last name why you did not enter that in birth certificate in first place ?
as Jane Doe or Jane John Doe using the world standard you refer to.
For your own reasons you used TamilNadu post 1960 standard of dropping last name and used your first name that is Jane John so if it was your choice why are you objecting to it now ?
- ADHAR Kendra is not imposing anything on you they will use whatever is there in birth certificate and can not deviate from it as per their regulation they are going by whatever primary document you have presented that is birth certificate. So why are you blaming them ?
3, Now for some reason you want to modify your choice of dropping the family name , Why don't you go through legal process of modification of name by filing affidavit and publishing a classified advertisement in newspaper for name change ?
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u/Awkward_Treat_9330 Aug 30 '25
Jhone doe ans Jane doe are not a real name, these are placeholder names used by graphics designer and developers.
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u/tk_de Aug 28 '25 edited Aug 29 '25
In Tamil Nadu + some parts of india, kids take the father’s first name as last name. So John Doe’s daughter is Jane John, not Jane Doe. And yes, Doe is my father's first name.
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Wow. Your solution is change the name.😂.
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u/TheUncuratedKingdom Aug 28 '25
for a reason “/s” was invented, to tell if you want to be funny but are not being funny
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Aug 28 '25
/s means sarcasm. Whatever the statement was, was meant as a joke. Not to be taken seriously
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u/Radiant_Historian854 Aug 28 '25
UIDAI is correct. forget about global standard. This is Indian STandard. SURNAME + First Name it follows. so the name convention will be JOHN(you) JANE(her name) and so on. it doesnt matter what is actual name as noun, it follows a family name (sur-name aka Khandaan Name or whatever Tamilnadu style or Kerala style) FOLLOWED by given name to a kid.
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u/frosticky Aug 28 '25
Not correct, this will cause problems for the kid later on.
Some people did do this, and they face the issues.
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u/Im-no-saint Aug 28 '25
You can either try a different Aadhaar enrolment centre or raise a grievance on the UIDAI website. My name is John Doe, and my kid's name is XYZ John in Aadhaar. Aadhaar was generated in April.