Updated August 10, 2026. Quick answer. Four states — Wyoming, New Mexico, Delaware, and Nevada — don’t require an LLC’s owners to appear on any document the public can pull from the state. That’s a narrower promise than “anonymous” usually implies: your registered agent and your bank both know who you are, and since March 2025 even the federal government generally doesn’t require domestic LLCs to report ownership either — but state-level privacy and true anonymity are not the same thing, and this page is about the state-level fact only.
The four states, and what “no disclosure” actually means
In these four states, the entity-formation statute does not require member or manager names on the document the state makes public — only the registered agent and basic formation details appear. Nevada is the outlier of the four: unlike Wyoming, New Mexico, and Delaware, Nevada’s own filing requires the initial member’s name and address on the Articles of Organization for a member-managed LLC, plus a public Initial List and Annual List naming managers or managing members — making it meaningfully more disclosure-heavy than the other three despite being grouped with them in most roundups.
| State | Member/manager names on the public record? |
|---|---|
| Wyoming | No — not required on the formation document or any annual filing |
| New Mexico | No — and New Mexico has no annual report requirement at all, so there’s no recurring filing to disclose them on either |
| Delaware | No — the Certificate of Formation does not name members or managers |
| Nevada | Partially — the initial member is named on formation, and managers/managing members appear on the public Initial and Annual Lists |
Who still knows who you are, regardless of state
State-level privacy has never meant true anonymity. Regardless of which of these four states you form in:
- Your registered agent knows your identity — they’re legally required to have your contact information to accept service of process on your behalf.
- Your bank knows. Federal Customer Due Diligence rules require banks to collect beneficial-ownership information directly from you to open a business account, regardless of what the state’s own filing requires.
- Courts can pierce it. None of these statutes protect you from discovery in litigation, a subpoena, or a court order — “the state doesn’t publish it” is not the same as “no one can ever find out.”
Forming in one of these four states
The formation fee itself is set by the state, not by who files it. See our own 50-state cost table for the exact figures (Wyoming $100, New Mexico $50, Delaware $110, Nevada $425 to actually open). Bizee can file in any of the four for you.
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The federal layer, as of March 2025
Separately from state law, the federal Corporate Transparency Act originally required most LLCs to report beneficial-ownership information to FinCEN. That changed: per an interim final rule FinCEN issued March 26, 2025 (reported consistently across multiple independent law-firm client alerts, including Miller Canfield, Ballard Spahr, and Mayer Brown), FinCEN narrowed the definition of “reporting company” to cover only entities formed under the law of a foreign country that register to do business in a US state — meaning domestically formed LLCs (including in all four states above) are now generally exempt from federal BOI reporting. This is a regulatory rule, not a statute, and rules like this can change again — verify current status before relying on it for anything consequential.
The honest limit on all of this
Choosing one of these four states changes what a stranger doing a casual public-records search can find. It does not create the kind of anonymity that defeats a bank, a court, a subpoena, or your own registered agent. If the goal is a genuine privacy layer on top of that (not forming in a specific state, but keeping your name off the RA and mailing address too), that’s a different, narrower product — see our companion page on registered agent options.
Sources
State disclosure requirements: each state’s own LLC formation statute and Secretary of State filing requirements (Wyoming Business Corporation Act / LLC Act; New Mexico Limited Liability Company Act; 6 Del. C. Title 6, Chapter 18; NRS 86). Nevada’s initial-member and annual-list requirements: NRS 86.161, 86.263. Federal BOI exemption: FinCEN interim final rule, March 26, 2025, as reported by multiple independent law-firm client alerts (Miller Canfield, Ballard Spahr, Mayer Brown) — fincen.gov itself was not directly fetchable this session; this fact rests on that convergent secondary reporting, not a first-party read, and should be independently re-verified before relying on it for a specific filing decision.
General information, not legal advice. Regulatory rules change; verify current federal requirements before making a filing decision based on this page.