According to Article 99 of Chapter V of General Principles of Civil Law of People's Republic of China (PRC):
Citizens have the right to name, and have the right to decide, use and change their names in accordance with regulations. Interference, misappropriation and counterfeiting are prohibited.
The public security bureau just suggested not to use single names. There are too many people with single names, which is easy to cause duplication, but there is no corresponding provision in law.
But once the name is repeated too many times, the household registration management department has the right to refuse to enter the name.
Extended data:
Name that cannot be registered:
Names may not use or contain the following characters, letters, numbers and symbols:
1, simplified and traditional Chinese characters. For example, Zhang's father named his child "Zhang Yunqi". This cloud character is a traditional Chinese character, which has been simplified to "cloud", so "Zhang Yunqi" cannot be registered as an account.
2. Variants that have been eliminated, except those in surnames. For example, the father's surname is "Ning" and the child's surname is "Ning", which is not allowed.
3. Make your own words. For example, the surname "Tai" named the child "Tai _".
4. Foreign languages.
5. Chinese Pinyin.
6. Arabic numerals.
7, damage the dignity of the country or nation.
8. Violate national customs.
9. Words that are likely to cause adverse public reactions or misunderstandings.
How to change the household registration name
1, because the public security organs consider that changing the name may cause a series of social problems, such as the applicant's criminal record, debts, etc. Therefore,/kloc-citizens over the age of 0/8 will not be changed in principle.
2. However, "strictly mastering"/kloc-the name change of citizens over 0/8 years old is only an internal regulation of the public security organs, and there is no specific operational standard, and it is suspected to be in conflict with the relevant provisions of the Civil Code and should not be legally binding. Citizens blindly refuse to change their names, citizens file lawsuits because of administrative inaction of public security organs, and public security organs cannot provide evidence to prove that citizens change their names illegally, and public security organs may bear the consequences of losing the case.
3. Change the name, but only if there are sufficient reasons, otherwise the household registration department will not change it for you, because if everyone doesn't like it on the grounds of bad name or superstition, the household registration department won't have to do other work, right? The best reason to change the name is "duplicate name". Let me teach you the specific steps to change your name:
1: Write an application for name change (name change application: XXX Household Registration Department, my name is XXX, female,1born on February 2, 990, now 18 years old. Because my neighbor has the same name, it brings a lot of inconvenience to my work and life, so I applied to change my name to XXX. Please approve! Year, month and day)
2. Proof (as long as you prove that you are a student of our school, you don't have to prove that you have the same name and surname, and you can do it in the street of the school unit)
3. Go to the household registration department where your household registration is located and fill in the form, which will be sealed by the staff, signed by the police in charge of the film and signed by the director.
4. Go to the superior competent department of the household registration department where your household registration is located for approval.
5. Notarization (people over 16 will be notarized, but sometimes they will twitch, so don't notarize first, in case they don't, save 200 yuan).
6. Print a new household registration book at the household registration department and apply for a new ID card.