# Change user's displayed name

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-users-displayed-name/47193
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 13, 2016, 2:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-users-displayed-name/47193 "2016-07-13T02:15:48Z")
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### Author: ![barryvan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/barryvan/32/82635_2.png) [@barryvan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/barryvan)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2016, 2:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-users-displayed-name/47193/1 "2016-07-13T02:15:48Z")

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Is it possible to change a user’s displayed name? I can, as administrator, change their username, but I can’t seem to find a way (short of jumping into the database) of changing the displayed name. I’m wanting to ensure that staff have appropriately consistent names, and I worry that that will quickly turn into a cat-herding exercise.

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2016, 3:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-users-displayed-name/47193/2 "2016-07-13T03:51:20Z")

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Not following, go to the user’s preferences page (non admin page) and change it there.

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/e/6/e697d9c925b5dac7a5d5144582b6bf8da4c90508.png)

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### Author: ![barryvan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/barryvan/32/82635_2.png) [@barryvan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/barryvan)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2016, 4:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-users-displayed-name/47193/3 "2016-07-13T04:47:45Z")

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Thanks @sam! 😃

I was looking for it in the admin area, not on the user’s profile. From the admin area, I can edit their username (and just about everything else), so I assumed that it’d be there that I’d be able to edit the displayed name as well. I didn’t think to look at the “preferences” page at all, tbh. Appreciate the clarification, and that I can, in fact, edit these names.

What are your thoughts on making it possible to edit this field from the user admin area as well? If someone’s just signed up, it’s easier to just edit their details there; otherwise, I have to open their admin area, view their public profile, go to preferences, and make the change…

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2016, 4:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-users-displayed-name/47193/4 "2016-07-13T04:50:16Z")

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Fine if you send a pr

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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2024, 12:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-users-displayed-name/47193/5 "2024-06-08T12:45:32Z")

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