diff --git a/admin/src/components/form/formState.ts b/admin/src/components/form/formState.ts
index f2c33ec..813e3ec 100644
--- a/admin/src/components/form/formState.ts
+++ b/admin/src/components/form/formState.ts
@@ -217,6 +217,35 @@ export function mergeMLValue(incoming: unknown, enabledLocales: readonly string[
   return { ...seeded, ...localeRecord(incoming) }
 }
 
+/** The record's display name: the value of the first text-like field (plain
+ * `text` or an ML type) in schema order. An ML value reads the default (first
+ * enabled) locale, then the first non-empty locale; '' when nothing is set. */
+export function recordDisplayName(
+  fields: readonly FormField[] | undefined,
+  values: AdminRecord,
+  enabledLocales: readonly string[],
+): string {
+  const first = fields?.find((field) => field.type === 'text' || isMLFieldType(field.type))
+  const value = first ? values[first.name] : undefined
+  if (typeof value === 'string' || typeof value === 'number') {
+    return String(value).trim()
+  }
+  if (!first || !isMLFieldType(first.type)) {
+    return ''
+  }
+  const texts = localeRecord(value)
+  const preferred = enabledLocales[0] !== undefined ? (texts[enabledLocales[0]] ?? '').trim() : ''
+  if (preferred !== '') {
+    return preferred
+  }
+  for (const text of Object.values(texts)) {
+    if (text.trim() !== '') {
+      return text.trim()
+    }
+  }
+  return ''
+}
+
 /** D-10 422 details (field -> messages) as a string-list map. */
 export function fieldErrors(details: ErrorBody['details'] | undefined): Record<string, string[]> {
   const out: Record<string, string[]> = {}
diff --git a/admin/src/views/FormView.vue b/admin/src/views/FormView.vue
index f638722..adb4741 100644
--- a/admin/src/views/FormView.vue
+++ b/admin/src/views/FormView.vue
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ import {
   mergeMLValue,
   panelDomId,
   presetUpdates,
+  recordDisplayName,
   schemaEnabledLocales,
   snapshot,
   tabDomId,
@@ -139,12 +140,10 @@ const panelFields = computed(() => {
   return fields.value.filter((field) => tabOf(field) === key)
 })
 
-/** The record's display name: the first text field's value, in schema order. */
-const recordName = computed(() => {
-  const first = schema.value?.fields.find((field) => field.type === 'text')
-  const value = first ? values.value[first.name] : undefined
-  return typeof value === 'string' || typeof value === 'number' ? String(value).trim() : ''
-})
+/** The record's display name: the first text-like field's value, in schema order. */
+const recordName = computed(() =>
+  recordDisplayName(schema.value?.fields, values.value, schemaEnabledLocales(schema.value?.meta)),
+)
 
 const title = computed(() => {
   if (mode === 'update' && recordName.value !== '') {
diff --git a/admin/src/views/PreviewView.vue b/admin/src/views/PreviewView.vue
index d5d7860..df31194 100644
--- a/admin/src/views/PreviewView.vue
+++ b/admin/src/views/PreviewView.vue
@@ -14,7 +14,16 @@ import FormTabs from '../components/form/FormTabs.vue'
 import PreviewField from '../components/form/PreviewField.vue'
 import RecordActions from '../components/form/RecordActions.vue'
 import { RELATION_MANAGER } from '../components/form/registry'
-import { DEFAULT_TAB, contextAllows, panelDomId, tabDomId, tabOf, type TabItem } from '../components/form/formState'
+import {
+  DEFAULT_TAB,
+  contextAllows,
+  panelDomId,
+  recordDisplayName,
+  schemaEnabledLocales,
+  tabDomId,
+  tabOf,
+  type TabItem,
+} from '../components/form/formState'
 import PartialHost from '../components/partial/PartialHost.vue'
 import Button from '../components/ui/Button.vue'
 import { clearRecordCrumb, setRecordCrumb } from '../state/useBreadcrumbs'
@@ -96,12 +105,10 @@ const panelFields = computed(() => {
   return fields.value.filter((field) => tabOf(field) === key)
 })
 
-/** The record's display name: the first text field's value, in schema order. */
-const recordName = computed(() => {
-  const first = schema.value?.fields.find((field) => field.type === 'text')
-  const value = first ? values.value[first.name] : undefined
-  return typeof value === 'string' || typeof value === 'number' ? String(value).trim() : ''
-})
+/** The record's display name: the first text-like field's value, in schema order. */
+const recordName = computed(() =>
+  recordDisplayName(schema.value?.fields, values.value, schemaEnabledLocales(schema.value?.meta)),
+)
 
 const subtitle = computed(() => message(schema.value?.messages.preview, undefined, { name: recordName.value }))
 const hintPartial = computed(() => schema.value?.preview?.headerPartial ?? '')
diff --git a/admin/tests/form/FormView.test.ts b/admin/tests/form/FormView.test.ts
index a4c99b1..5c135f2 100644
--- a/admin/tests/form/FormView.test.ts
+++ b/admin/tests/form/FormView.test.ts
@@ -611,6 +611,14 @@ describe('password and preset on the form (UI-SPEC S7, D-19, D-27 G7)', () => {
     expect(editor(wrapper, 'slug').element.value).toBe('ada-lovelace')
   })
 
+  it('titles a record by the default locale of an mltext first field, and publishes it as the crumb', async () => {
+    const record = clone(rosterRecordFixture)
+    record.data.name = { en: 'Ada Lovelace', pl: 'Ada Lovelace PL' }
+    const { wrapper } = await mountApp('/acme/roster/people/1', people({ [`GET ${PEOPLE}/schema/form`]: mlSchema('mltext', 'text'), [`GET ${PERSON}`]: { body: record } }))
+    expect(wrapper.find('h1').text()).toBe('Ada Lovelace')
+    expect(recordCrumb.value).toBe('Ada Lovelace')
+  })
+
   it('drives a text slug from the active locale of an mltext name, until edited', async () => {
     const { wrapper } = await mountApp('/acme/roster/people/create', people({ [`GET ${PEOPLE}/schema/form`]: mlSchema('mltext', 'text') }))
     await editor(wrapper, 'name').setValue('Hello World')
diff --git a/admin/tests/form/PreviewView.test.ts b/admin/tests/form/PreviewView.test.ts
index 07dc850..be3c98c 100644
--- a/admin/tests/form/PreviewView.test.ts
+++ b/admin/tests/form/PreviewView.test.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
 import { enableAutoUnmount, flushPromises, type VueWrapper } from '@vue/test-utils'
 import { setBundle } from '../../src/app/i18n'
+import { recordCrumb } from '../../src/state/useBreadcrumbs'
 import { toasts } from '../../src/state/useToasts'
 import PreviewView from '../../src/views/PreviewView.vue'
 import { clone, langFixture, rosterFormSchemaFixture, rosterRecordFixture } from '../fixtures/typed'
@@ -121,6 +122,23 @@ describe('preview view (UI-SPEC S3, D-11)', () => {
     expect(editor.findAll('[role="radiogroup"]').every((group) => group.attributes('aria-disabled') === 'true')).toBe(true)
   })
 
+  it('heads the record by the default locale of an mltext first field, and publishes it as the crumb', async () => {
+    const { wrapper } = await mountApp(
+      PREVIEW,
+      routes({
+        [`GET ${LIST}/schema/form`]: schemaWith((schema) => {
+          schema.meta.enabledLocales = ['en', 'pl']
+          schema.fields.find((field) => field.name === 'name')!.type = 'mltext'
+        }),
+        [`GET ${RECORD}`]: recordWith((record) => {
+          record.data.name = { en: 'Ada Lovelace', pl: 'Ada Lovelace PL' }
+        }),
+      }),
+    )
+    expect(wrapper.find('h1').text()).toBe('Ada Lovelace')
+    expect(recordCrumb.value).toBe('Ada Lovelace')
+  })
+
   it('shows the muted dash for an empty value and the label of a relation, never its id', async () => {
     const { wrapper } = await mountApp(PREVIEW, routes({ [`GET ${RECORD}`]: recordWith((record) => (record.data.joined_ip = null)) }))
     expect(wrapper.find('[data-preview-field="joined_ip"] [data-empty]').text()).toBe('—')
diff --git a/admin/tests/form/formState.test.ts b/admin/tests/form/formState.test.ts
index 1b363db..1c1e83f 100644
--- a/admin/tests/form/formState.test.ts
+++ b/admin/tests/form/formState.test.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import {
   panelDomId,
   presetUpdates,
   presetValue,
+  recordDisplayName,
   snapshot,
   tabDomId,
   tabOf,
@@ -271,3 +272,33 @@ describe('ML create seed and adopt merge', () => {
     expect(mergeMLValue({ en: 'Hello', pl: 'Witaj' }, ['en', 'pl'])).toEqual({ en: 'Hello', pl: 'Witaj' })
   })
 })
+
+describe('recordDisplayName', () => {
+  const field = (name: string, type: string): FormField => ({ ...formField('name'), name, type })
+  const text = field('name', 'text')
+  const title = field('title', 'mltext')
+  const locales = ['en', 'pl']
+
+  it('reads a plain text value, trimmed', () => {
+    expect(recordDisplayName([text], { name: '  Anna ' }, locales)).toBe('Anna')
+    expect(recordDisplayName([text], { name: 42 }, locales)).toBe('42')
+  })
+
+  it('reads the default locale of an ML value', () => {
+    expect(recordDisplayName([title], { title: { en: 'Hello', pl: 'Cześć' } }, locales)).toBe('Hello')
+  })
+
+  it('falls back to the first non-empty locale when the default is empty', () => {
+    expect(recordDisplayName([title], { title: { en: ' ', pl: 'Cześć' } }, locales)).toBe('Cześć')
+  })
+
+  it('is empty when every locale is empty', () => {
+    expect(recordDisplayName([title], { title: { en: '', pl: '' } }, locales)).toBe('')
+    expect(recordDisplayName([title], {}, locales)).toBe('')
+  })
+
+  it('skips fields that are not text-like, in favour of a later text field', () => {
+    const fields = [field('notify', 'checkbox'), field('tags', 'relation'), title, text]
+    expect(recordDisplayName(fields, { notify: true, tags: [1], title: { en: 'Post', pl: '' }, name: 'Anna' }, locales)).toBe('Post')
+  })
+})