diff --git a/app/Http/Controllers/Api/UsersController.php b/app/Http/Controllers/Api/UsersController.php
index 8783679b9b..e91ae8f676 100644
--- a/app/Http/Controllers/Api/UsersController.php
+++ b/app/Http/Controllers/Api/UsersController.php
@@ -148,8 +148,7 @@ class UsersController extends Controller
         $users = Company::scopeCompanyables($users);
 
         if ($request->has('search')) {
-            $users = $users->where('first_name', 'LIKE', '%'.$request->get('search').'%')
-                ->orWhere('last_name', 'LIKE', '%'.$request->get('search').'%')
+            $users = $users->SimpleNameSearch($request->get('search'))
                 ->orWhere('username', 'LIKE', '%'.$request->get('search').'%')
                 ->orWhere('employee_num', 'LIKE', '%'.$request->get('search').'%');
         }
diff --git a/app/Models/User.php b/app/Models/User.php
index c783bdbba5..15e29657d7 100755
--- a/app/Models/User.php
+++ b/app/Models/User.php
@@ -413,6 +413,25 @@ class User extends SnipeModel implements AuthenticatableContract, CanResetPasswo
         return json_decode($this->permissions, true);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Query builder scope to search user by name with spaces in it.
+     * We don't use the advancedTextSearch() scope because that searches
+     * all of the relations as well, which is more than what we need.
+     *
+     * @param  \Illuminate\Database\Query\Builder $query Query builder instance
+     * @param  array  $terms The search terms
+     * @return \Illuminate\Database\Query\Builder
+     */
+    public function scopeSimpleNameSearch($query,  $search) {
+
+           $query = $query->where('first_name', 'LIKE', '%'.$search.'%')
+               ->orWhere('last_name', 'LIKE', '%'.$search.'%')
+               ->orWhereRaw('CONCAT('.DB::getTablePrefix().'users.first_name," ",'.DB::getTablePrefix().'users.last_name) LIKE ?', ["%$search%", "%$search%"]);
+        return $query;
+    }
+
+
+
     /**
      * Run additional, advanced searches.
      *