A fixed name search on Orbit now runs from a first and last name alone. Date of birth, postcode, and town are optional, so you can look someone up when you know the name on Companies House and do not have a date of birth or address.
What changed
On Person Search and Wealth Location Search, tick Fixed Name Search, enter the first and last name, and search. You no longer need a date of birth, postcode, or town to run that search. Those fields are still there if you want to narrow the results.
Why this helps
Fixed name search is for cases where a normal name search returns too many similar names, such as Jon, Jonathan, and John, or William and Bill. Until now you still had to add a date of birth, postcode, or town before it would run, even when the name itself was enough. You can now search the name on its own.
How a fixed name search matches
First name and last name are required.
Middle name, date of birth, postcode, and town are optional. If you fill any of them in, they still narrow the results.
The name must appear as a whole word on the Companies House record. Searching for James does not return Jon or John.
Other forenames on the record are still included. A search for James Blunt also returns Eric James Blunt, because James is one of his forenames and Blunt is the surname.
A very common name can take a little longer and return more people, because the search is no longer limited by a date of birth or a place.
Thanks
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