diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/widgets/search-menu-results.js.es6 b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/widgets/search-menu-results.js.es6
index 56ac661370b..1d190fc7c8b 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/widgets/search-menu-results.js.es6
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/widgets/search-menu-results.js.es6
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ function postResult(result, link, term) {
 }
 
 createSearchResult('user', 'path', function(u) {
-  return [ avatarImg('small', { template: u.avatar_template, username: u.username }), ' ', u.username ];
+  return [ avatarImg('small', { template: u.avatar_template, username: u.username }), ' ', h('span.user-results', h('b', u.username)), ' ',  h('span.user-results', u.name ? u.name : '') ];
 });
 
 createSearchResult('topic', 'url', function(result, term) {
diff --git a/app/assets/stylesheets/common/base/menu-panel.scss b/app/assets/stylesheets/common/base/menu-panel.scss
index 64851b6bb46..deb79628d5c 100644
--- a/app/assets/stylesheets/common/base/menu-panel.scss
+++ b/app/assets/stylesheets/common/base/menu-panel.scss
@@ -184,6 +184,10 @@
       display: block;
       padding: 5px;
       transition: all linear .15s;
+
+      .user-results {
+        color: dark-light-choose(scale-color($primary, $lightness: 30%), scale-color($secondary, $lightness: 70%));
+      }
     }
 
     &:hover a:not(.badge-notification) {
diff --git a/app/serializers/grouped_search_result_serializer.rb b/app/serializers/grouped_search_result_serializer.rb
index 721567d3d58..ff216c8a232 100644
--- a/app/serializers/grouped_search_result_serializer.rb
+++ b/app/serializers/grouped_search_result_serializer.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 class GroupedSearchResultSerializer < ApplicationSerializer
   has_many :posts, serializer: SearchPostSerializer
-  has_many :users, serializer: BasicUserSerializer
+  has_many :users, serializer: SearchResultUserSerializer
   has_many :categories, serializer: BasicCategorySerializer
   attributes :more_posts, :more_users, :more_categories
 end
diff --git a/app/serializers/search_result_user_serializer.rb b/app/serializers/search_result_user_serializer.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..bf4d4bae8ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/serializers/search_result_user_serializer.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+class SearchResultUserSerializer < BasicUserSerializer
+  attributes :name
+end