Person Name Styles

Person name styles define the person name components for a country. Only one style can exist for a country, while you can predefine name styles for some countries.

Note the following:

You can create name styles for countries that have none.
You can copy an existing style to use as the basis.
You can create a new name style in case of specific requirements for a country

For countries that don't have a predefined person name style, the universal name style applies by default.

You can edit predefined name styles by doing the following:

creating additional components
selecting mandatory components
changing order of components
selecting list of values for the components

You can mark a predefined component as inactive, unless it’s a required component. But you can't delete predefined components and make required components optional. You can delete only those components that were added to a predefined name style. You can't delete a predefined name style.

You can mark Oracle-delivered non-required name attributes as inactive by deselecting the Mark as Active check box. But you can’t mark the Last Name attribute and the Oracle-delivered required name attributes as inactive. When you mark a name attribute as inactive, the attribute won't be displayed on the pages where a name can be managed, such as Hire an Employee, Family and Emergency Contacts, and Personal Details.

Note: You can create, edit, and delete a user-defined name style and its components any time. If a user-defined name style is deleted after person names have been created using that style, the universal name style applies by default.

Person Name Components

Last Name is a mandatory name component for all person name styles. You can set other person name components as mandatory, based on specific requirements for a country.

Note the following:

The name components Name Information 1 through Name Information 14 are reserved for localization requirements.
You can use the components Name Information 15 through Name Information 30 to define specific person name components for a country.

For example, if you want to capture Mother's Maiden Name for a country, you can use the name component Name Information 15, and denote the display name for this component as Mother's Maiden Name.