This page describes the procedure to change the registered name in Kintone.

In Kintone, the following two fields are available for registering user names.

Surname, Given Name

Register user's name.

Display Name

Register the name the user wants to show. User's name can be registered as is.

Notations other than user's name can also be registered following the requests as shown below.

To show both user's name and phonetic name

Surname, Given Name: 菅野 丈二

Display Name: 菅野 (Sugano)

To show abbreviation instead of long name

Surname, Given Name: William Jones

Display Name: Will.J

To show both user's name and nickname

Surname, Given Name: Yamada Kentaro

Display Name: Yamada Kentaro (Ken)

Possible usage examples are shown below.

Register "Andrew Brown" for "Surname" and "Given Name", and "Andy Brown (Year hired 2021)" for "Display Name".

Register the names in alphabet for "Surname" and "Given Name", and register notations in a local language for "Display Name".

Register "Somying" in "Given Name", and "สมหญิง" for "Display Name".
If you also enable "Localized Name", it is displayed as "ソミー" for Japanese display language.
Displaying Localized User Names in Display Language

Register "Surname" and "Given Name", and for "Display Name", register notations as below to distinguish them.

• John Smith (Domestic Sales Department)
• John Smith (HR Department)

1. Click in the header.

2. Click Users & System Administration.
   Accessing Kintone Users & System Administration

3. Click Departments & Users.
   

4. Enter a display name or a login name of the user in the search box to search the target user.
   You can also expand the department tree and select the target user.

5. Click for the user.
   

6. Update "Surname", "Given Name", or "Display Name".

7. Click Save.