{"id":4721,"date":"2025-06-09T18:12:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T16:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/consedimburgo.esteri.it\/?page_id=4721"},"modified":"2025-06-09T18:21:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T16:21:33","slug":"information-regarding-the-surnames-and-first-names","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/consedimburgo.esteri.it\/en\/servizi-consolari-e-visti\/servizi-per-il-cittadino-italiano\/stato-civile\/per-registrare-il-certificato-di-nascita\/information-regarding-the-surnames-and-first-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Information regarding the surname(s) and first name(s)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian law provides the following precise rules governing the attribution of the surname and first name for the registration of birth:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>SURNAME<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The Ministry of the Interior, with circular no. 397\/2008, has stated that only for children born abroad and holding both Italian citizenship <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and the citizenship of a foreign country<\/span>, the Italian civil registrar will proceed to register the birth act, attributing the surname as indicated in the birth certificate. In this case, parents MUST present <strong>valid documentation proving the child&#8217;s foreign citizenship.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The ruling of the Constitutional Court no. 131 of April 27, 2022 (Official Gazette, 1st Special Series, no. 22 of June 1, 2022) see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazzettaufficiale.it\/eli\/id\/2022\/06\/01\/T-220131\/s1\">HERE<\/a>, on the attribution of a double surname to children, has established that the child&#8217;s surname &#8220;must be composed of the surnames of parents,&#8221; in the order decided by them, unless the parents, by mutual agreement, attribute only one of their surnames. In the absence of mutual agreement, the intervention of a judge is necessary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>NAME<br \/>\n<\/strong>According to Article 34 of DPR 396\/2000, it is forbidden to give a child the same first name as the living father, a living brother, or a living sister, a surname as a first name, or ridiculous or shameful names.<br data-start=\"1258\" data-end=\"1261\" data-is-only-node=\"\" \/>According to Article 35 of DPR 396\/2000, the name given to the child must correspond to their gender and may consist of a single name or multiple names, even if separated, not exceeding three.<br data-start=\"1453\" data-end=\"1456\" \/>If two or more names are given, separated by commas, the civil registrar and the registry officer must report only the first name on the birth extracts and certificates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Italian law provides the following precise rules governing the attribution of the surname and first name for the registration of birth: SURNAME The Ministry of the Interior, with circular no. 397\/2008, has stated that only for children born abroad and holding both Italian citizenship and the citizenship of a foreign country, the Italian civil [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":986,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4721","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/consedimburgo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/consedimburgo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/consedimburgo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consedimburgo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consedimburgo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/consedimburgo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4722,"href":"https:\/\/consedimburgo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4721\/revisions\/4722"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consedimburgo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/consedimburgo.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}