BIRTH CERTIFICATE Definition & Meaning

birth certificate

noun

an official form recording the birth of a baby and containing pertinent data, as name, sex, date, place, and parents.

birth certificate

noun

an official form giving details of the time and place of a person's birth, and his or her name, sex, mother's name and (usually) father's name

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of birth certificate¹

First recorded in 1895–1900

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"I know that he's taken some flak lately, but no one is happier, no one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than the Donald," Obama said at the time.

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Rosenblum said that, after Trump was reelected, she rushed to get her California birth certificate updated to show that she had transitioned.

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She has no birth certificate, no Social Security number, no governmental records of any kind.

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Existing SSA guidance noted that applying “when you provide information for your baby’s birth certificate in the hospital” was the “easiest way to get a Social Security number.”

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Since December she hasn't been to her local school, when it decided it would no longer accept Afghans without a valid Pakistani birth certificate.

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