How to hide your last name on LinkedIn

There may be plenty of reasons why you may want to hide your last name on LinkedIn. Even though the platform is all about forming and managing professional connections, there are those who would want to maintain their privacy and only share certain information with those connected to them. Among other measures that you can do maintain your privacy is hiding your last name on LinkedIn, so those who are not connected to you wouldn’t even be able to see your complete name. This can particularly come in handy when someone doesn’t want to engage with even second-degree connections.

If you feel that in order to maintain your privacy, you want to hide your name on LinkedIn too, here’s how you can go about it:

Step 1: Log in to LinkedIn and press on the Profile icon.

Step 2: Scroll down and select Settings & Privacy.

Step 3: On top of the Settings page, press on Privacy.

Step 4: Scroll down and you will see an option of ‘Who can see my last name.’

Step 5: Click on ‘Change’ written right next to it. Alternatively, you can also click on the option itself to change the settings.

Step 6: This will show you two options. Among these, one will be your complete name and the other will show the first letter of your last name or abbreviated name.

Step 7: Select the abbreviated name and it will be saved automatically.

On this particular page in your privacy settings on LinkedIn, you will see that you can make other changes too including managing who can see your email address or your connections on the platform, your profile visibility, syncing contacts and calendar, blocking and unfollowing users you may not want to connect with, and various options of managing how others see your LinkedIn activity.