List names

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

Retrieve a list of personName objects from a user's profile.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	✅	✅	✅

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	User.Read	User.Read.All, User.ReadBasic.All, User.ReadWrite, User.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	User.Read	User.ReadWrite
Application	Not supported.	Not supported.

HTTP request

GET /me/profile/names
GET /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/profile/names

Optional query parameters

This method supports the following OData query parameters to help customize the response. For general information, see OData query parameters.

Name	Value	Description
$filter	string	Limits the response to only those objects that contain the specified criteria.
$orderby	string	By default the objects in the response are sorted by their createdDateTime value in a query. You can change the order of the response using the $orderby parameter.
$select	string	Comma-separated list of properties to include in the response. For optimal performance, only select the subset of properties needed.
$skip	int	Skip the first n results, useful for paging.
$top	int	Number of results to be returned.

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type	application/json. Required.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and a collection of personName objects in the response body.

Examples

Request

Here's an example of the request.

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/profile/names

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Me.Profile.Names.GetAsync();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

mgc-beta users profile names list --user-id {user-id}

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v0.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-go"
	  //other-imports
)


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
names, err := graphClient.Me().Profile().Names().Get(context.Background(), nil)

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

PersonNameCollectionResponse result = graphClient.me().profile().names().get();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let names = await client.api('/me/profile/names')
	.version('beta')
	.get();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\GraphServiceClient;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);


$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->profile()->names()->get()->wait();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Beta.People

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
Get-MgBetaUserProfileName -UserId $userId

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta import GraphServiceClient
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

result = await graph_client.me.profile.names.get()

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

Here's an example of the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
  "value": [
    {
      "id": "0fb4c1e3-c1e3-0fb4-e3c1-b40fe3c1b40f",
      "allowedAudiences": "organization",
      "inference": null,
      "createdDateTime": "2020-07-06T06:34:12.2294868Z",
      "createdBy": {
        "application": null,
        "device": null,
        "user": {
          "displayName": "Innocenty Popov",
          "id": "db789417-4ccb-41d1-a0a9-47b01a09ea49"
        }
      },
      "lastModifiedDateTime": "2020-07-06T06:34:12.2294868Z",
      "lastModifiedBy": {
        "application": null,
        "device": null,
        "user": {
          "displayName": "Innocenty Popov",
          "id": "db789417-4ccb-41d1-a0a9-47b01a09ea49"
        }
      },
      "displayName": "Innocenty Popov",
      "first": "Innocenty",
      "initials": "IP",
      "last": "Popov",
      "languageTag": "en-US",
      "maiden": null,
      "middle": null,
      "nickname": "Kesha",
      "suffix": null,
      "title": null,
      "pronunciation": {
        "displayName": "In-no ken-te ",
        "first": "In-no ken-te Pop-ov",
        "maiden": null,
        "middle": null,
        "last": "Pop-ov"
      }
    }
  ]
}