The name field in the user profile is not directly editable, as this is reserved for name data returned from third party identity providers, e.g. Facebook. As outlined in the normalized user profile documentation:
A user’s
name
,nickname
, andpicture
attributes are not directly editable, however you can update the fields in theuser_metadata
to update them for your front-end as desired. Click here for more details for changing a user’s picture; thename
,nickname
fields can be updated in the same way.