email name

Question

my email name is showing up in outlook as FNAME instead of Steve Kirin. Can thid be fixed?

Answer 1

Hi,

I see the question concerns a new Outlook. I would like to let you know that the name is tied to your email Service Provider, and as a result, there is no functionality to change it.

Could you ask your email service provider for instructions on how to change the name?

If it is an outlook.com email address, I'll share the steps below, since the name syncs from your account

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/accounts-billing/manage/how-to-change-your-microsoft-account-name-or-address

A friendly reminder that this is a community support forum where users help other users. Advisors participating here cannot make changes to Microsoft services or access internal systems and can only provide technical guidance, independent of Microsoft's Policy decisions.

I hope this information helps. If you have any more questions, don't hesitate to reach out.

Answer 2

Yes, if this is a display name issue, it can usually be corrected.

For classic Outlook for Windows:

1. Go to File > Account Settings > Account Settings.
2. Select the email account.
3. Choose Change.
4. In the Your name field, replace FNAME with Steve Kirin.
5. Select Next, then Close.

Important limits:

• If the account type is Microsoft Exchange, the display name cannot be changed in Outlook. The Exchange administrator must change it.
• In new Outlook for Windows, the option to edit the display name for email recipients is not yet available.

If the issue is only that recipients see part of the name, the steps above apply to classic Outlook. If the account is Exchange or the new Outlook for Windows, the change must be made outside that Outlook setting path.

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• Change the display name that email recipients see in classic Outlook