Change How User Names are Displayed

[ChrisAlvarezTeksouth]

I'm trying to see if I can change how names are displayed on my view of Teams.  For example, could I prioritize last name instead of fist names (or tell teams what I want to pop up).

The reason I need to ask is because I am (through no fault of my own) contributing to the phenomenon of several people named Chris in my team, which creates a lot of confusion.  I previously worked in a team of two people, both of us named Chris.  Now the team I am trying to manage in Teams has 3 Chris's out of a team of 9 (plus a few more in the company that sometimes work with us).  When I get a message from "Christopher", I really need to know if I am talking to the sys admin or the developer (or maybe the analyst or SharePoint admin).  Last name would work, or I can set a name that helps.

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Hi @ChrisAlvarezTeksouth,

if it is only in Teams Channels, you could use “Tagging” and create some awesome personal tags for every Chris (Like: SharepointChris, SysAdminChris ;)) in the Team. This can be done using the tagging feature in Teams. See more info here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/manage-tags

if it has to do with looking up for a Chris to start a new chat with there is no possibility, other than changing display name, to sort it by last-name. 
Someone already opened a user voice (back in 2019) but only got 44 votes.

https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/38174560-sort-contacts-by-last... 

hope this info helped. 

Stay healthy and stay safe,

Mitchell Bakker  

[#3]

The alternative to change Display Names is to do through Azure AD, not sure if the approach is going to be valid taking into account the scenario here