{"id":4919,"date":"2020-09-15T17:56:54","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T17:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/help\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=4919"},"modified":"2025-06-10T09:56:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T13:56:47","slug":"name-change-am-i-covered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/blog\/name-change-am-i-covered\/","title":{"rendered":"I recently changed my name&#8230;does DeleteMe cover this?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-rank-math-toc-block uk-card-default uk-padding\" style=\"font-size:16px\" id=\"rank-math-toc\"><h4>Table of Contents<\/h4><nav><ul><li><a href=\"#adding-names-to-your-data-sheet\">Adding names to your data sheet<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>DeleteMe will remove all variations of your name(s) that you add to your <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/help.joindeleteme.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/8584517870355-Member-Onboarding-Completing-the-Data-Sheet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DeleteMe data<\/a><\/strong><a aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/help\/kb\/your-deleteme-data-sheet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong> sheet<\/strong><\/a>. It doesn&#8217;t matter if you&#8217;ve been married or divorced, or if you&#8217;ve gone by any aliases or nicknames in the past. Simply add all variations of your name(s), aliases and nicknames to your DeleteMe data sheet upon sign up, and we&#8217;ll take care of the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note: <\/strong>DeleteMe will only remove the information of the individuals included in your DeleteMe subscription. If you add names that are not yourself or others included in your DeleteMe subscription, they will not be removed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"adding-names-to-your-data-sheet\">Adding names to your data sheet<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;ve recently changed your name or forgot to add names you&#8217;ve gone by in the past, you can always log into your DeleteMe account and update your DeleteMe data sheet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow these steps to add names to your data sheet:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> <strong><a aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/delete-me\/login\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Login<\/a><\/strong> to your DeleteMe account at joindeleteme.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"919\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/data-sheet1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4920\" style=\"width:919px;height:435px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/data-sheet1.png 919w, https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/data-sheet1-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/data-sheet1-768x364.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 919px) 100vw, 919px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2. <\/strong>Once logged in, click &#8220;Edit datasheet&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"657\" height=\"579\" src=\"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/data-sheet-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4925\" style=\"width:657px;height:579px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/data-sheet-3.png 657w, https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/data-sheet-3-300x264.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3. <\/strong>Click the &#8220;Edit&#8221; button<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"688\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/data-sheet-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4927\" style=\"width:688px;height:525px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/data-sheet-4.png 688w, https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/data-sheet-4-300x229.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>4. <\/strong>Click &#8220;Add alternate name <strong>+<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"673\" height=\"531\" src=\"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/data-sheet-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4929\" style=\"width:673px;height:531px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/data-sheet-5.png 673w, https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/data-sheet-5-300x237.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>5. <\/strong>Add the new name and repeat this process to add as many names as you need covered<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>6. <\/strong>Scroll to the bottom of the page, click next, and confirm any changes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"728\" height=\"216\" src=\"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/data-sheet-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4931\" style=\"width:728px;height:216px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/data-sheet-6.png 728w, https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/data-sheet-6-300x89.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;re all set! Any new names that you&#8217;ve added will be included in your next DeleteMe report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DeleteMe will remove all variations of your name(s) that you add to your DeleteMe data sheet. It doesn&#8217;t matter if you&#8217;ve been married or divorced, or if you&#8217;ve gone by any aliases or nicknames in the past. Simply add all variations of your name(s), aliases and nicknames to your DeleteMe data sheet upon sign up, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":6315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deleteme-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}