e-Aadhaar PDF Password: Format and How to Remove It (2026)

Quick Answer

An e-Aadhaar PDF from UIDAI opens with a password made from the first four letters of your name in capitals followed by your birth year (YYYY). If your name has fewer than four letters, use the letters shown and add the year.

For a name like Sameer born in 1990 that comes to SAME1990. Strip the password after it opens and the Aadhaar stops asking on later opens.

Sameer, born 1990SAME1990

Raj Yadav, born 1988RAJY1988

Rani Kumari, born 1984RANI1984

Your e-Aadhaar lands from the UIDAI site as a sealed PDF, and it demands a password the moment you try to view it. UIDAI seals the page because it shows your Aadhaar number and photo. That code is nothing secret. It is built from two facts you carry in your head, the name on the card and the year you were born. Learn the rule and open the file, then hand it to the Univik PDF Unlocker to drop the seal for good.

What Is the Password on an e-Aadhaar PDF?

The seal on an e-Aadhaar is an open password chosen by UIDAI. Nothing on the page appears until you type it in. UIDAI applies it so a copy resting in your email or downloads cannot flash your identity to whoever taps the file. The value is that the rule never shifts. Your name supplies the first part and your birth year supplies the rest.

A person opens a password-protected identity PDF on a laptop; the page details are blurred — The password prompt appears before the identity PDF opens.

What Is the e-Aadhaar PDF Password Format?

Take your name's first four letters in capitals, then add your four-digit birth year. Read the name across first name and surname, ignoring spaces. If your name has fewer than four letters, use the letters shown and then the year. The examples below show how it lands.

Name on Aadhaar	Birth year	Password
Sameer	1990	SAME1990
Raj Yadav	1988	RAJY1988
Rani Kumari	1984	RANI1984
Sam Yadav	1975	SAMY1975
Priya Nair	2010	PRIY2010
Kiara	2000	KIAR2000

Two things people get wrong

The letters run across your whole name, so Raj Yadav gives RAJY rather than RAJ. Every letter is capital. When a name holds fewer than four letters, use what it has and then the year.

e-Aadhaar password breakdown: SAI KUMAR becomes SAIK, then 1990 makes SAIK1990; the shorter name RIA becomes RIA1990 — The examples use UIDAI's published name-and-year format, including a name shorter than four letters.

How Do You Open an e-Aadhaar PDF?

Three pieces make the code: the letters, the year and the case.

Write the first four letters of your name in capitals, such as SAME for Sameer.
Attach the birth year in four digits, so Sameer born in 1990 becomes SAME1990.
Open the PDF in any viewer and enter that code at the prompt. Your Aadhaar appears.

Doing this at every open grows tiresome, and that is why people strip the seal.

How Do You Remove an e-Aadhaar PDF Password?

Entering the code at every open is a small daily annoyance, and a KYC portal or an app that reads the file cannot get past the seal on its own. Take it off once and the Aadhaar opens straight away from then on. Unlock the file with your name-and-year code, then hand it to the PDF Unlocker, which finishes in roughly two seconds.

Work out your code

Join the first four letters of your name in capitals to your birth year, giving something like SAME1990.

Open the Aadhaar

Enter that code in any PDF viewer and your e-Aadhaar shows on screen.

Clear the seal

Drop the open Aadhaar into the Univik PDF Unlocker and start it. A fresh copy saves with no code attached.

Three-step e-Aadhaar workflow: build the code, open the original PDF, and save a new copy without the password prompt — Use the code to open the original first; then save a clean copy on your PC.

Your Aadhaar, open on the first tap

The Univik PDF Unlocker lifts the code from an e-Aadhaar you can already open and writes a clean copy. Aim it at a folder and every sealed identity file comes out unlocked in a single pass.

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What If the Password Does Not Work?

Since the code is your own name plus your birth year, a rejection nearly always points to a tiny slip. Re-read how the name sits on the card, its spelling and its order. Keep every letter capital. Count the first four letters across the whole name rather than the first name by itself. Match the birth year to the card. When none of that helps, pull a fresh e-Aadhaar from UIDAI, because a half-finished download can reject a correct code.

Is It Safe to Remove an e-Aadhaar Password?

Few files deserve more care than an Aadhaar. Your Aadhaar number, your photo and your address all sit on that page. Feed it to a website you do not run and you have handed your identity to an unknown machine. Keep the work inside a program on your own computer and nothing travels anywhere. Lifting the code from an Aadhaar that belongs to you sits well within your rights. Still torn between a browser tool and one on your desktop? The safety of online PDF unlockers makes a good read first.

Key Takeaways

An e-Aadhaar opens on the first four letters of your name in capitals joined to the birth year as YYYY.
Read the letters straight across the whole name, so Raj Yadav gives RAJY. Keep them capital.
Unlock the file with that code, then lift the password so the Aadhaar shows with no prompt.
Because an Aadhaar carries your identity, a desktop program that stays offline beats any online site.
A rejected code usually means a name or year slip, and a fresh UIDAI download fixes a bad file.

People upload an Aadhaar to a random online unlocker to save two seconds of typing. That is the one file you never want on a stranger's server. The password is your own name and year. Clear it on your own PC and the copy stays with you.

Nick Rogers

Founder, Univik

Making Windows software since 2013

e-Aadhaar Password Questions

The e-Aadhaar password combines the first four letters of your name in capitals with your year of birth as YYYY. If your name has fewer than four letters, use the letters shown and add the year. For a name like Sameer born in 1990, the password is SAME1990.

It is the first four letters of your name as printed on the Aadhaar, read across the whole name with spaces dropped. So Raj Yadav becomes RAJY, not RAJ. Then add the birth year.

Use whatever letters the name holds and then the birth year. A short single name gives fewer than four letters before the year, so the code runs under eight characters.

Unlock the file once with your name-and-year code, drop it into the Univik PDF Unlocker and start the run. It writes a fresh copy that needs no code on the next open.

Yes. A masked Aadhaar from UIDAI carries the same name-and-year code, and the Univik PDF Unlocker strips it once you have the file open.

Yes, with an offline desktop program. An Aadhaar holds your identity, so a tool that stays on your machine and sends nothing out beats a web upload. Clearing your own Aadhaar is routine.

Almost always a small slip. Match the name spelling and order to the card. Keep the letters capital. Count four across the full name and check the birth year. A fresh UIDAI download clears a broken file.

Leena Taylor Paul

Put together and kept current by Leena Taylor Paul and the Univik team, makers of Windows file utilities since 2013. A lot of the people we help need a clean e-Aadhaar for a KYC upload and would rather not retype a code on every open, so the guide sets out the rule first and then the safe way to clear the seal. Last verified September 2026. Cannot open your e-Aadhaar? Contact our support team.