diff --git a/oauthenticator/azuread.py b/oauthenticator/azuread.py
index b77b986d..dc1fc4ca 100644
--- a/oauthenticator/azuread.py
+++ b/oauthenticator/azuread.py
@@ -6,23 +6,16 @@
 import json
 import jwt
 import os
-import re
-import string
 import urllib
-import sys
 
 from tornado.auth import OAuth2Mixin
 from tornado.log import app_log
-from tornado import web
-
-from tornado.httputil import url_concat
 from tornado.httpclient import HTTPRequest, AsyncHTTPClient
 
 from jupyterhub.auth import LocalAuthenticator
 
-from traitlets import List, Set, Unicode
+from traitlets import Unicode, default
 
-from .common import next_page_from_links
 from .oauth2 import OAuthLoginHandler, OAuthenticator
 
 
@@ -51,6 +44,7 @@ class AzureAdOAuthenticator(OAuthenticator):
     login_handler = AzureAdLoginHandler
 
     tenant_id = Unicode(config=True)
+    username_claim = Unicode(config=True)
 
     def get_tenant(self):
         if hasattr(self, 'tenant_id') and self.tenant_id:
@@ -64,6 +58,10 @@ def get_tenant(self):
             app_log.info('ID4: {0}'.format(tenant_id))
             return tenant_id
 
+    @default('username_claim')
+    def _username_claim_default(self):
+        return 'name'
+
     async def authenticate(self, handler, data=None):
         code = handler.get_argument("code")
         http_client = AsyncHTTPClient()
@@ -101,7 +99,7 @@ async def authenticate(self, handler, data=None):
         id_token = resp_json['id_token']
         decoded = jwt.decode(id_token, verify=False)
 
-        userdict = {"name": decoded['name']}
+        userdict = {"name": decoded[self.username_claim]}
         userdict["auth_state"] = auth_state = {}
         auth_state['access_token'] = access_token
         # results in a decoded JWT for the user data
diff --git a/oauthenticator/tests/test_azuread.py b/oauthenticator/tests/test_azuread.py
index f6cb2602..11b375a8 100644
--- a/oauthenticator/tests/test_azuread.py
+++ b/oauthenticator/tests/test_azuread.py
@@ -19,4 +19,4 @@ def test_gettenant_with_tenant_id():
 
 def test_gettenant_from_env():
     t_id = AzureAdOAuthenticator.get_tenant(object)
-    assert t_id.default_value == "some_random_id"
+    assert t_id.default_value == "some_random_id"
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