Name Act Article 9

A person meeting one of the following conditions may apply to change his/her given name:1. The applicant is an employee of a public or private sector enterprise, entity (organization), association, or school or has studied at a school in which another person has the same surname and given name;2. The applicant has the same given name as an elder relative within three degrees of kinship;3. The applicant has the same surname and given name as another person who has also been registered at a household registry in the same particular municipality, county, or city for more than six months;4. The applicant has the same surname and given name as a criminal suspect for whom an arrest warrant has been issued;5. The applicant’s paternity has been acknowledged by the biological father or the acknowledgment thereof has been revoked, or the applicant has been adopted, or his/her adoption has been annulled or terminated;6. The applicant’s name is unflattering or has an excessively long Romanized form , or other special considerations exist; or7. The applicant is a Taiwan indigenous person and applies to change his/her given name based on culture and customs.People applying to alter their given name under subparagraph 6 of the preceding paragraph may be granted this privilege only thrice. However, in the second instance, the applicant must have already reached the age of majority.