The legal process for changing your name in India requires three main steps: first, preparing a notarized affidavit stating your old and new names; second, publishing an advertisement announcing the name change in a local newspaper; and finally, submitting an application, along with required above documents, to the Gazette Office in Delhi for an official Gazette Notification. Once published in the Gazette, this notification becomes the mandatory and legally valid proof, accepted everywhere.

The legal process of name change involves giving an affidavit about changing your current name to a new name. Next, you will need to inform the public about your name change by publishing a notice in your local newspaper. After this, you have to apply for name change in the gazette notification. After which your name change will be published in the gazette notification.

To change your name legally, prepare an alphabet, publish an advertisement for name change in the local newspaper of your state and then publish a notification in the Gazette of India. This is a legal document on the basis of which the name will be changed in all your documents.