Registering a marriage or civil partnership
Forms and documents you'll need to provide to register a marriage or civil partnership
Registering a marriage or civil partnership
Forms and documents you'll need to provide to register a marriage or civil partnership
Where to order copies of certificates and extracts from our registers
How to apply to change your name, including cost and processing times
Most popular first names given to babies whose births were registered in Scotland in 2024
How to access our search rooms to see our physical records, and selected digital records
Projected Population of Scotland
The projected future population of Scotland over the 25 years to mid-2047, based on the 2022 Census
The number of births registered in Scotland in the first three months of this year was 3.9% lower than average, according to National Records of Scotland.
Summer archives exhibition announced
Fresh insight to guide NRS forward