Changing your name in Wyoming
Changing your name in Wyoming runs through Wyoming Driver Services. The table below is what the agency itself publishes — what it charges, what it wants to see, and whether you have to turn up in person — with the date we last checked each one. Social Security comes first, before any of it — it is the record most licensing agencies check your new name against, so doing it first is what keeps the counter visit to one trip.
To change your name on a Wyoming driver license or state ID you apply through Wyoming Driver Services.
Update Social Security first — it is the record most licensing agencies check your new name against, and several states require the update before they will issue.
Wyoming does not publish a single figure for this, so we have not printed one.
You have to go in person — the counter takes a new photograph.
What Wyoming Driver Services requires
Read off the agency’s own pages. The date beside each row is the day we last checked it — a government fee with no date on it is worth very little.
| What | Value | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agency | Wyoming Driver Services | Wyoming Driver Services — name change | |
| Form | Wyoming names no single form for this. | Wyoming Driver Services — name change | |
| Fee | Wyoming charges the standard renewal fee for a name change, not a duplicate fee. | Wyoming Driver Services — name change | |
| Deadline | Wyoming publishes no statutory deadline. | Wyoming Driver Services — name change | |
| In person? | Required | Wyoming Driver Services — name change |
What to bring to the Wyoming counter
- A court order, marriage certificate, divorce decree indicating you are taking back a former name, or other legal verification of the change signed by a judge
- Your current Wyoming license or ID card, to surrender
Source: Wyoming Driver Services · checked
The sequence that works in Wyoming
Almost every failed name change is a sequencing failure — somebody at the counter before the records caught up.
- Do Social Security first — it’s the record most agencies check against, so getting it done first is what keeps the rest in step. A few states require it outright and say so on their own page.
- Apply at Wyoming Driver Services once Social Security has updated, which usually takes a day or two.
- Update your passport. Which form applies depends on when yours was issued.
- Update your vehicle title and registration, usually at the same counter.
- Update your voter registration, then your bank, employer, insurers and utilities.
What catches people out in Wyoming
- In person at any Wyoming driver exam office, and you surrender your current license or ID card at the counter.
- Wyoming charges the renewal fee rather than a duplicate fee — but you get a full five-year license for it, so the term restarts rather than being replaced like-for-like.
- Social Security first. Wyoming runs the check and tells you what happens if it fails: no match means producing your Social Security card in the new name as well as the legal document.
- You are re-photographed and your signature is captured again.
- The card comes by mail, and Wyoming quotes a longer wait than most states — four to six weeks at last check.
Source: Wyoming Driver Services · checked
Where your document comes from in Wyoming
Every agency in the sequence wants the original or a certified copy. Where you get one depends on which document you hold, and it is one of the few things that genuinely differs from state to state.
| What | Value | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marriage certificate | From either the state vital records office or the county that issued your marriage license A Wyoming marriage is filed first with the registrar in the county where it happened, then recorded with the state. Vital Records Services in Cheyenne handles certificate ordering statewide. | Wyoming Department of Health, Vital Records Services | |
| Cost of a copy | We could not retrieve Wyoming's fee from the agency's pages. | Wyoming Department of Health, Vital Records Services | |
| Decree or court order | District Court, via the Clerk of District Court Wyoming's district courts are the trial courts of general jurisdiction in each of the state's 23 counties. The elected Clerk of District Court maintains the case file, including orders and judgments. | Wyoming courts |
If you married or divorced in a different state, order from that state rather than this one. The record sits where the event was filed, not where you live now.
Whichever way your name changed
The Wyoming paperwork is the same three steps whatever authorized the change. What differs is which document you take to the counter.
Changing your name after marriage
Take your marriage certificate to Wyoming Driver Services.
- In Wyoming, a certified marriage certificate comes from either the state vital records office or the county that issued your marriage license — Wyoming Department of Health, Vital Records Services.
- We could not retrieve Wyoming's fee from the agency's pages.
- A Wyoming marriage is filed first with the registrar in the county where it happened, then recorded with the state. Vital Records Services in Cheyenne handles certificate ordering statewide.
Changing your name after divorce
Take your divorce decree to Wyoming Driver Services.
- A divorce decree only changes your name if it contains a clause naming a former name and restoring it to you. Ending the marriage does not do it on its own.
- If your decree has no restoration clause, a counter clerk will refuse it, and the route back to a former name is a court petition instead.
- Agencies usually want the complete decree rather than the page carrying the clause, because the caption and the judge’s signature are on other pages.
Changing your name with a court order
Take your signed court order to Wyoming Driver Services.
- The copy that agencies accept is the one signed by the judge and stamped or sealed by the clerk. An unsigned conformed copy is refused.
- Agencies accept a signed court order on its own — none of them asks for a marriage or divorce document alongside it.
- The reason a court granted the order does not change the paperwork that follows it. Every agency downstream asks only to see the order.
Where a path has its own Wyoming page, the link goes there. Where it does not, it goes to the guide for that path, which holds in every state.
Wyoming name change questions
- Do I have to change my name at Social Security before the Wyoming DMV?
- Do Social Security first — it’s the record most agencies check against, so getting it done first is what keeps the rest in step. A few states require it outright and say so on their own page.
- How much does a Wyoming name change cost?
- Wyoming does not publish a single figure we could verify, so we have not printed one. The agency's own fee page is linked above.
- Is a photocopy of my document enough?
- No. Every agency wants the original or a certified copy, and several refuse a certified copy that has been laminated.
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