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Originally Posted by Coda

You can't get a birth certificate reissued if you legally change your name, after all. No state I know of will do that.

mm, actually, that's not true. There are states that will amend your birth certificate for certain types of legal name changes. One example is adoption; both of the children my parents adopted have birth certificates now with their new, legal names, not the ones they were born with.