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How to Show Suffix Field in Magento 2

By Shivbhadrasinh GohilUpdated on May 21, 2025 3 min read

Suffix in a name adds additional information about a person.

In British English, the suffix is used to show the generational designation such as “Jr.” and “Sr.” For instance, John R. Smith Jr.

Furthermore, those who want to show the number of generation uses suffixes like “I”,” II”, “III”, and so on, that indicates the first generation, the second generation and the third generation respectively.

Magento 2, a feature-rich platform that it is, allows merchants to enable the suffix field in the registration form from the admin panel! Similarly, there’s an option to enable prefix in Magento 2 backend. If you want to show prefix field in the registration form, you can easily do so by enabling the option in the admin panel.”

In this post, the stepwise method to show suffix field in Magento 2 store is shown.

Steps to Show Suffix Field in Magento 2

Steps to Show Suffix Field in Magento 2
  1. Login to Magento 2 admin panel
  2. Navigate to Stores > Settings > Customers
  3. Under Customer, select Customer Configuration
  4. Expand Name and Address Options
  5. Set Required in the field “Show Suffix”
  6. Add the Suffix Dropdown Options separated by a semicolon.
  7. Save the configuration

That’s it.

Now, the suffix field is displayed while adding new address in the “My Account” section.

Suffix on add new address

Also, the suffix field is shown on the registration form:

Suffix on registration form

You can also refer to the video tutorial to Show Suffix Field in Magento 2 from our Magento 2 video tutorial series:

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Thank you.

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Shivbhadrasinh is the Co-founder & Chief Marketing Officer at Meetanshi. He leads the marketing team and is the person behind the marketing & branding success of the company. Being a seasoned digital marketer, he has been consulting online businesses for growth since 2010 and has helped 100+ clients with digital marketing success. He loves sharing tips and insights about the latest digital marketing trends aimed at helping online business owners.