Forza Horizon 6 shows you two names. The driver name is chosen from a preset list in your garage. The Xbox Gamertag is your Microsoft account handle, and the number Xbox puts on the end of it cannot be removed from inside the game. Neither field takes a styled font.
The driver name is cosmetic and lives in your garage. The Gamertag is your account, and it is the name other racers see. A third name, your Steam profile name, never appears in the game at all.
| Name | What it is | Can you type your own? | Where you change it | Seen by other racers? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Driver name | Cosmetic nickname in your garage profile | No, you pick one from a preset list | Garage → Character → My Name | Yes |
| Xbox Gamertag | Your Microsoft account handle. This is what other racers see. | Plain text only, never a styled font | Xbox account settings, outside the game | Yes, numeric suffix included |
| Steam profile name | A Steam-side label | Yes | Steam profile settings | ✗ No |
On PC the game signs you in through your Microsoft account, not Steam, so renaming yourself on Steam changes nothing in a Forza lobby.
Xbox adds those digits when the gamertag you asked for is already taken. It is a setting on your Microsoft account, not on the game, and Forza Horizon 6 has no option to hide it.
One fix works: change the Xbox gamertag itself to something nobody else has. Do that in Xbox account settings, and the suffix goes away everywhere Xbox shows your name. Your first gamertag change is free; Microsoft charges for the ones after it, so it is worth checking a candidate is actually unique before you spend the change.
Picking a unique name buys you room as well. Since Microsoft's July 2026 console update, a unique Latin-character gamertag can run to 15 characters; one that still needs a numeric suffix stops at 12 characters. Details in Xbox Gamertags Grow From 12 to 15 Characters.
No, in either field, and for two different reasons.
The driver name is not a text box, so there is nothing to paste into.
The Gamertag is a text box, but it has never accepted anything beyond plain characters. Our Game-Name Rules Matrix lists it at 12–15 characters plus an Xbox-assigned #suffix, plain text only, with spaces and apostrophes allowed and nothing decorative. That is the same locked-handle pattern behind almost every game and app, set out in where fancy fonts work: username vs. display name.
Corrected July 24, 2026. This page first described the driver name as a free-form field with no published length or character rules, and said we would watch for one. There is no such rule coming.
A Playground Games developer answered the question on Steam Community: ANNA, the in-car assistant, says your name out loud, and "because all of ANNA's lines are recorded by a voice actor, it's only possible to select from the names that have been pre-recorded." You are picking from a fixed list tied to real voice recordings. No length limit and no character set will ever be published for it, because there is no field to limit.
The Gamertag row above is the only hard naming rule Forza Horizon 6 inherits, and the game's launch did not change it.
Check what a PSN ID, a Steam name or a Roblox username will accept before you pay for a change.
Open the Game-Name Rules Matrix →Naming mechanics and platform details per racinggames.gg's guide to changing your name and gamertag in Forza Horizon 6. Driver-name mechanism per a Playground Games developer's reply on Steam Community.