diff --git a/src/app/hooks/useRoomMeta.ts b/src/app/hooks/useRoomMeta.ts
index 086c3a56..d9920557 100644
--- a/src/app/hooks/useRoomMeta.ts
+++ b/src/app/hooks/useRoomMeta.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,54 @@
 import { useEffect, useState } from 'react';
 import { RoomJoinRulesEventContent } from 'matrix-js-sdk/lib/types';
-import { Room, RoomEvent, RoomEventHandlerMap } from 'matrix-js-sdk';
+import {
+  Room,
+  RoomEvent,
+  RoomEventHandlerMap,
+  RoomStateEvent,
+} from 'matrix-js-sdk';
 import { StateEvent } from '../../types/matrix/room';
 import { useStateEvent } from './useStateEvent';
 
+// matrix-js-sdk's `Room.name` for a DM with no explicit `m.room.name`
+// event falls back to a disambiguated peer label and, in many SDK
+// versions, suffixes the peer's MXID as `Display Name (@id:server)` —
+// either always or whenever a display-name collision is suspected. That
+// produces the «Alex (@test6:vojo.chat)» pattern users see in the DM
+// list, chat header and room intro even though no two members share
+// the same display name. The handle is already shown as a separate
+// subline in the chat header, so the parenthetical is pure noise.
+//
+// Workaround: when the room has no explicit `m.room.name` and is a 1:1
+// with exactly one other joined/invited member, take the peer's raw
+// display name directly (`RoomMember.rawDisplayName` is the value from
+// `m.room.member.content.displayname` without SDK disambiguation).
+// Fall back to the local-part of the MXID, then the bare MXID. Group
+// rooms and rooms with an explicit name keep the SDK output.
+const resolveRoomName = (room: Room): string => {
+  const explicit = room.currentState.getStateEvents(StateEvent.RoomName, '');
+  if (explicit) return room.name;
+
+  const myUserId = room.client.getUserId();
+  if (myUserId) {
+    const peers = room
+      .getMembersWithMembership('join')
+      .concat(room.getMembersWithMembership('invite'))
+      .filter((m) => m.userId !== myUserId);
+    if (peers.length === 1) {
+      const peer = peers[0];
+      if (peer.rawDisplayName && peer.rawDisplayName.trim()) {
+        return peer.rawDisplayName.trim();
+      }
+      const local = peer.userId.startsWith('@')
+        ? peer.userId.slice(1).split(':')[0]
+        : peer.userId;
+      return local || peer.userId;
+    }
+  }
+
+  return room.name;
+};
+
 export const useRoomAvatar = (room: Room, dm?: boolean): string | undefined => {
   const avatarEvent = useStateEvent(room, StateEvent.RoomAvatar);
 
@@ -17,17 +62,23 @@ export const useRoomAvatar = (room: Room, dm?: boolean): string | undefined => {
 };
 
 export const useRoomName = (room: Room): string => {
-  const [name, setName] = useState(room.name);
+  const [name, setName] = useState(() => resolveRoomName(room));
 
   useEffect(() => {
-    setName(room.name);
+    setName(resolveRoomName(room));
 
-    const handleRoomNameChange: RoomEventHandlerMap[RoomEvent.Name] = () => {
-      setName(room.name);
+    const recompute: RoomEventHandlerMap[RoomEvent.Name] = () => {
+      setName(resolveRoomName(room));
     };
-    room.on(RoomEvent.Name, handleRoomNameChange);
+    // RoomEvent.Name fires when m.room.name changes;
+    // RoomStateEvent.Members fires on every m.room.member event,
+    // covering both display-name updates of the peer and membership
+    // flips that could change which member counts as the DM peer.
+    room.on(RoomEvent.Name, recompute);
+    room.currentState.on(RoomStateEvent.Members, recompute);
     return () => {
-      room.removeListener(RoomEvent.Name, handleRoomNameChange);
+      room.removeListener(RoomEvent.Name, recompute);
+      room.currentState.removeListener(RoomStateEvent.Members, recompute);
     };
   }, [room]);