diff --git a/Assets/Scripts/Network/UI/PlayerNameplates.cs b/Assets/Scripts/Network/UI/PlayerNameplates.cs
index 7883cf2..4334e4e 100644
--- a/Assets/Scripts/Network/UI/PlayerNameplates.cs
+++ b/Assets/Scripts/Network/UI/PlayerNameplates.cs
@@ -7,9 +7,10 @@ using UnityEngine;
 /// projected above the head via Camera.main each LateUpdate - NOT world-space, so names always draw over the
 /// scene and (via this canvas's sortingOrder) over the normal HUD. No GraphicRaycaster and every label is
 /// raycastTarget=false, so it never eats clicks. Font size scales inversely with camera distance, clamped to
-/// [minFontSize, maxFontSize]. The OWN avatar's label is gated on its body being locally rendered - the exact
-/// proxy for "not first-person" (the FP controller self-hides the mesh, including while Esc-paused).
-/// Per-role/phase visibility (hide phase etc.) is deliberately not applied yet.
+/// [minFontSize, maxFontSize]. Visibility: a label shows only while its avatar's body is rendered locally
+/// (own first-person self-hide, the per-client hide-phase matrix, found hiders, paint-reveal gate - a name
+/// floating over an invisible body would leak the position), and hider names are additionally suppressed for
+/// a local HUNTER viewer during Seek, where bodies ARE rendered but a label would defeat the camouflage hunt.
 /// </summary>
 [DisallowMultipleComponent]
 public class PlayerNameplates : MonoBehaviour
@@ -63,6 +64,12 @@ public class PlayerNameplates : MonoBehaviour
         }
 
         var cam = Camera.main;
+        // Seek is the one window where a hider's body is rendered for a hunter but its name must not be
+        // (spotting the camouflage IS the game); everywhere else the body-rendered gate below suffices.
+        var match = MatchManager.Instance;
+        bool hunterSeek = match && match.LocalSubPhase == MatchManager.MatchSubPhase.Seek &&
+                          NetworkPlayerSetup.LocalViewerIsHunter();
+
         for (int i = 0; i < _entries.Count; i++)
         {
             Entry e = _entries[i];
@@ -70,8 +77,12 @@ public class PlayerNameplates : MonoBehaviour
 
             bool show = cam;
 
-            // Own avatar: label only while the body is rendered locally (hidden = first person / load freeze).
-            if (show && e.setup.IsOwner && (!e.body || !e.body.enabled))
+            // Label only while the body is rendered locally: covers the own first-person self-hide AND every
+            // per-client hide (hide-phase matrix, found hiders, paint-reveal/conversion gates) in one check.
+            if (show && (!e.body || !e.body.enabled))
+                show = false;
+
+            if (show && hunterSeek && e.setup.Role == PlayerRole.Hider)
                 show = false;
 
             Vector3 screen = default;