Facebook Rolling Out Language-Specific Names

Facebook is beginning to roll out language-specific names for users, allowing their names to be displayed in the native languages of a select few countries.

LanguageSpecificName650Facebook is beginning to roll out language-specific names for users, allowing their names to be displayed in the native languages of a select few countries.

The social network said users’ friends will see their names “in the way that’s most natural for them,” and it also specified the differences between language-specific names and alternate names.

In the “Changing Your Name & Birthday” section of its Help Center, under the “What is a language-specific name?” tab, Facebook wrote:

A language-specific name is your name, as it appears in another language.

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