How do I change the name appearing next to my email name?

When i recieve an email, I notice the names of the people who sent me that email. I want to change the name others see when I send an email. Is this possible? If so, would someone please assist me?

my outgoing emails read f.d.mcmorrow Francis McMorrow - this is obviously ridiculous -i want it changed -

When I send out an email via my Yahoo email account, the person receiving those emails can see my full, entire name in addition to the return address of course. I do not like my name appearing like that. It could create problems with spammers, salesman...

I use an email account to stay in contact with approximately 350 friends. It is an account that my daughter also uses, and because she opened the account to begin with, her name appears in the from box on any emails our friends receive. She no longer...

Hi! I want to change my name from appearing in 'sender' to just my email address when I send mail. How do I do this? I know it's somewhere but just can't find it....? ...show more

I edited my email account info and profile. Why is my old name still appearing in their emails to me? What must be done to get all my contacts prior to the name change to reflect the name change?

This is a fairly simple Yahoo type question as in " How do I change my password?" etc. and so on... In my case it is VERY important to me because I am disabled and forming a corporation I can operate (primarily) from home and as my health conditon...

When I write an email It will say at the top of the email From "my name" and the will say my email address after that. I just got married and need to change my last name because that is the name everyone sees and uses that name to respond back...