Clerk-Recorder | OC Clerk Recorder Department

WELCOME TO THE CLERK-RECORDER DEPARTMENT

Hello and thank you for visiting our website. The Clerk-Recorder Department’s dedicated employees perform a wide range of services including recordation of real property transactions, issuing marriage licenses, performing civil marriage ceremonies, issuing birth, death, and marriage certificates, maintaining registration of notaries, and processing applications for fictitious business names and passports.

Our staff is committed to providing a consistently high level of public service. We strive to run our office in a cost-effective manner and use automated processes and digital image technology to make it easier for the public and business community to access our records.

The website provides you with details about our services and the addresses to all our office locations in the cities of Anaheim, Laguna Hills, and Santa Ana. Sincerely,

Hugh Nguyen

Orange County Clerk-Recorder

Highlights

Biography

“Dedicated to making the public records readily accessible while safeguarding the confidentiality and security of those records.”

Hugh Nguyen
Orange County Clerk-Recorder

Civil Wedding Ceremonies

Civil weddings are performed in special ceremony rooms at the Old County Courthouse and at the department’s branch offices in Anaheim and Laguna Hills.

Old County Courthouse

Marriage licenses and U.S. passports can be obtained through the department at the historic Old County Courthouse in downtown Santa Ana. Passport photos also are available.

North County Branch Office

Residents in North Orange County can visit the department’s branch office in Anaheim, where customers can access most of our services.

South County Branch Office

Residents in South Orange County can visit the department’s branch office at the Laguna Hills Civic Center, where customers can access most of our services and parking is free.

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Grand Opening Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for Clerk-Recorder's South County Branch Office Expansion

May 17, 2022

Orange County Clerk-Recorder Hugh Nguyen is proud to announce the grand opening of the expanded South County Branch Office in Laguna Hills on May 25, 2022. The office of the Clerk-Recorder will be conducting a ribbon cutting ceremony on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, at 10:30 a.m. in the Laguna Hills...

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COVID-19 Was No Match For Clerk-Recorder Department's SECURE Electronic Recording Delivery System

April 5, 2022

During the COVID-19 mandated office closures in March 2020, the Orange County Clerk-Recorder Department managed to continue recording real property documents without experiencing any service disruptions. Clerk-Recorder Hugh Nguyen credits the department’s multi-county SECURE electronic delivery...

Ceremony Room at Old Orange County Courthouse

Wedding Vows to Echo Again Throughout Clerk-Recorder's Marriage Ceremony Rooms

March 17, 2022

Clerk-Recorder Hugh Nguyen is proud to announce the reopening of all marriage ceremony rooms at his department’s offices effective Thursday, March 24, 2022. After being closed for the past two years due to the pandemic, the Clerk-Recorder Department will resume civil marriage ceremonies inside...

Don't Get Left Behind! Clerk-Recorder to Host Passport Day

March 9, 2022

Orange County Clerk-Recorder Hugh Nguyen would like to invite the public to take advantage of Passport Day which he will be hosting on Saturday, April 2, 2022, at the Old Orange County Courthouse in Santa Ana from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Only new passport applications will be accepted. No renewal...

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