Name Change Tracker

A new name is quick on paper, but in everyday life it drags a long tail behind it. ID card, passport, driving licence, health insurer, bank, insurers, employer, landlord, subscriptions, customer accounts - the old name still stands everywhere, and each of these places wants to be notified individually. The name change tracker gathers all these institutions in one place and ticks them off with you, instead of you holding them laboriously in your head.

The trigger determines the rules. Whether you take a married name through marriage, return to your birth name after a divorce, receive a new name through adoption or change your name under the Self-Determination Act - each case has its own legal basis and partly its own proofs. The tracker knows these differences and adapts the order and documents to your specific occasion.

Not every institution is equally urgent. ID and passport come right at the top, because without current identity documents everything else stalls. Then come the places with deadlines and financial impact - bank, health insurer, employer - and only then the many small items like streaming services and customer accounts. The tracker orders the institutions by priority so you first do what makes the biggest difference.

The most tedious part of a name change is the identical letter over and over. The tracker gives you ready-made template letters you only fill with your data, so you do not rewrite the same letter twenty times. For many places a short notification with a copy of the certificate is enough - the tracker tells you who needs what and in which form.

A detail that easily slips through: the mail forwarding order and the many ongoing contracts. Anyone who moves and changes their name at the same time easily loses track of which post still arrives under the old name. The tracker considers such side stages and reminds you of points you only notice when an important bill vanishes into the void.

Because a name change can take weeks to months, the tracker is built as a running progress display. At any time you see what is done, what is still open and where a deadline is pressing. That turns a diffuse mammoth task into a list that shortens by itself.

Everything runs in your browser, your entries stay on the device. The tracker does not replace legal advice but hands you legal bases like the Civil Code, the Name Change Act and the Civil Status Act so you know what you are relying on. No account, no data transfer, no institution you end up forgetting after all.