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We can to modify User Profile Properties in SharePoint 2010 from Central Administration. Go to Central Administration => Application Management => Manage Service Applications => User Profile Service Application. Select the property and then click on Edit to modify the property.
Under, Users and Permissions, select People and Groups. Locate a group that the user is in e.g. Members. Click on the name of the user to find the user’s information. In there, you will see the account name to use in the script to change the SharePoint user display name.
How to create user profile properties in SharePoint?
Under People, select Manage User Properties. Select New Property. In the Name box, enter a unique name for the property. In the Display Name box, enter the profile property name that will be displayed to all users. (This name doesn’t have to be unique.) In the Type list, select the data type for the property.
Where do I Find my user profile properties?
User profile properties are name-value pairs attached to user profiles that describe personal information about the user. The profile store contains a list of user profile property information. This information is obtained by importing it from a directory that contains user accounts or manually by typing the account information…
By default, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 can import from the Active Directory directory service, LDAP servers, and Business Data Catalog. SharePoint Server 2010 provides a default set of commonly used user profile properties.
Some elements of profile properties, such as the Type element, are unavailable because they can’t be edited. To define these elements, create a new property. The exception is the Source Data Connection property. It’s predefined in SharePoint and can’t be changed.