Key legal question
Whether a religious conversion can constitute an important reason for changing or adding a first name under Art. 30(1) CC
Extracted holding
In the concrete case, the conversion and the applicant's personal circumstances constituted sufficient important reasons to permit the addition of the second first name 'Uri'.
Extracted reasoning
Name changes remain exceptional, but here the family name and original first name remained unchanged, so public and social interests in stability were only weakly affected. The applicant had strong personal reasons tied to a serious inner religious transformation and wished to identify publicly with Judaism; the refusal was not necessary to protect any overriding interests.