# Support First Name+Vocative in Greetings
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-first-name-vocative-in-greetings/387763
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [November 6, 2025, 10:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-first-name-vocative-in-greetings/387763 "2025-11-06T10:36:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@tvavrda](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tvavrda)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2025, 10:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-first-name-vocative-in-greetings/387763/1 "2025-11-06T10:36:41Z")
Discourse greets users by showing “Welcome back, johndoe!” banner. First of all, I think it’s not very friendly to greet by the user name. I would expect to be greeted by my first name.
But then we have a problem.
Many inflected languages such as Czech, Polish, Ukrainian, Greek, and Hindi have a vocative case used when addressing a person directly. In these languages, the correct form of a name changes depending on grammatical case – for example, in Czech “Petr” becomes “Petře” in the vocative. Supporting name declension (vocative forms) is therefore important for localized greetings.
It would be great if greeting by first name would be supported along with vocative case. I can imagine there would be a user editable field in the user profile, that could be as well processed by AI in order to help find the correct name form.
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### Author:  [@mcmcclur](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcmcclur)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2026, 12:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-first-name-vocative-in-greetings/387763/2 "2026-02-28T12:47:09Z")
I agree with this. The user name must be unique and is often the same as the username associated with the email. Mine is mcmcclur, which is just an email address assigned to me years ago. It’s not _personal_ so it seems odd to use for personal greetings.
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### Author:  [@stephtara](https://meta.discourse.org/u/stephtara)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2026, 6:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-first-name-vocative-in-greetings/387763/3 "2026-02-28T18:06:24Z")
My languages aren’t inflected but I’ve learned enough of them to know it’s important! (French just modestly has gender and many verb forms, and even that brings localisation challenges… so I definitely feel for anybody whose language is even more distant linguistically from English.)