Changing Your Chosen Name

Owned by June Miller (Deactivated)
Last updated: May 03, 2024 by Ashley Mattingly
2 min read

Students, faculty, and staff of all campuses (including UConn Health Center) are able to change the way their name displays in UConn directories and the Microsoft 365 email system.

Chosen Name Example.jpg
The names shown in the example above (both recipient and sender) are set in the Chosen Name tool on netid.uconn.edu.

Changing Your Chosen Name 

  1. Go to netid.uconn.edu, and sign in with your NetID and password. 

  2. Click on My NetID and select Change Chosen Name. The next page will display your legal name. 

  3. If you wish to: 

    1. use your legal name, leave the Synced With Legal Name radio button on. You can choose how you want your name to be formatted in the Display Name Format section.

    2. change your name in the UConn directories to a name other than your legal name, turn the Synced With Legal Name slider off and enter your desired name.

  4. Click the radio button beside the name format of your choice. This is how your name will appear in the directories.

  5. Click Change Display Name.

You can change your Chosen Name as many times as you like. This will be the name that people will see when they send or receive emails from you.