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description: Keep household account names accurate and professional as family dynamics change. Define formula-based naming patterns to automatically recalculate household names whenever you add, remove, or update members. The naming engine listens for changes to household membership and member details and then recalculates names in real time.
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# Automatically Generate and Maintain Household Names

Keep household account names accurate and professional as family dynamics change. Define formula-based naming patterns to automatically recalculate household names whenever you add, remove, or update members. The naming engine listens for changes to household membership and member details and then recalculates names in real time.

**Where:** This change applies to Lightning Experience in Enterprise, Unlimited, and Developer editions of Nonprofit Cloud with the Automatic Household Creation and Naming add-on.

**Who:** Admins of Nonprofit Cloud can set up automatic household naming.

**Why:** Without automation, staff manually name every household account and update those names whenever family compositions change through marriage, divorce, or other life events. Household names become outdated or inaccurate, leading to unprofessional communications and a cycle of manual data cleanup. With Automatic Household Naming, your Salesforce admin defines naming rules once, and Household Naming handles ongoing maintenance.

**How:** From Setup, enter Household, and under Group Membership, select **Household Naming Settings**. Turn on **Automatic Household Naming** and create a household naming template.

#### See Also

- [_Salesforce Help_: Automatically Generate and Maintain Household Names and Greetings in Nonprofit (can be outdated or unavailable during release preview)](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.fundraising_automatic_household_naming.htm&language=en_US)