These resources provide information on the procedure to change your name through the California courts. They provide step-by-step instructions for changing your name, including information on birth certificates and also instructions for completing a legal gender change.

• How to Change Your Name in California (Nolo Press), Self-Help Collection (SHC KFC109 .H69) and online in Legal Information Reference Center, click here).
• California Forms of Pleading and Practice, Reading Room (RR KFC1010.A65 C3) or electronically on the law library computers, using Lexis Advance. See Volume 33, Chapter 377 “Name, Change of”

To find information online about the process to change your name through the California Courts, you can start at the “How-to Guide to Changing Your Name” section of the California Courts Online Self-Help Center, click here.  

A step-by-step guide walking you through the process can also be found on the Sacramento County Public Law Library’s website, click here.  This step-by-step guide includes sample forms and instructions for preparing, copying, assembling, and serving the forms involved in a civil name change.