Facebook always requires users to use their birth name to ensure that it remains a secure place for their friends and family and that they are easily recognizable to their colleagues.
Specifically, various illegal activities can be checked with a Facebook user’s real name, such as scams, hacks or phishing, death threats, cyberbullying, etc.
When using your real name, recovering access to your account becomes significantly easier if you have forgotten your password or due to some other issue.
With this said and done, it is believable to understand that simply knowing how to change your name on Facebook won’t work if you do not follow some regulations, some of which are listed below for you to review and follow.
Your Facebook name should never include the following:
- Symbols, numbers and unusual types of capitalization or punctuation.
- Characters that are made up of several languages.
- Any title, religious or otherwise.
- Phrases or any line instead of a name.
- Abusive or sexually explicit words of any kind.
Do note that you shouldn’t try to impersonate another person or even a colleague under a name or a new one; a ban will deal with this.