Can you change a player's nametag in skript?

[ghost]

i haven't found a way to change the player's nametag in skript

[erenkarakal]

minecraft doesn't allow this. best you can do is spawn a text display entity and make it ride the player

[ghost]

minecraft doesn't allow this. best you can do is spawn a text display entity and make it ride the player

can you show me an example?

[erenkarakal]

spawn text display at player:
  set text of entity to "modified name"
  set display translation of entity to vector(0,1,0)
  make entity ride player