diff --git a/examples/app-showcase/src/data/extensions/account.extension.ts b/examples/app-showcase/src/data/extensions/account.extension.ts
index cfb70e0b9c3..5d1e36bd231 100644
--- a/examples/app-showcase/src/data/extensions/account.extension.ts
+++ b/examples/app-showcase/src/data/extensions/account.extension.ts
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ import { defineObjectExtension } from '@objectstack/spec/data';
 export const AccountExtension = defineObjectExtension({
   extend: 'showcase_account',
   label: 'Account (Success Overlay)',
+  // The plural travels with the label: an extension that renames an object
+  // without one is served with no plural at all (the base's `Accounts` names
+  // the old label), so the list title would fall back to the singular.
+  pluralLabel: 'Accounts (Success Overlay)',
   fields: {
     loyalty_tier: {
       name: 'loyalty_tier',
diff --git a/packages/qa/dogfood/test/showcase-object-extension-scalar-divergence.dogfood.test.ts b/packages/qa/dogfood/test/showcase-object-extension-scalar-divergence.dogfood.test.ts
index b08ffe2c06b..c6d2ae5e6b1 100644
--- a/packages/qa/dogfood/test/showcase-object-extension-scalar-divergence.dogfood.test.ts
+++ b/packages/qa/dogfood/test/showcase-object-extension-scalar-divergence.dogfood.test.ts
@@ -118,6 +118,8 @@ import { writeBuildShapedArtifact } from './build-shaped-artifact.js';
 
 /** What the showcase's `objectExtensions` entry declares on `main` today. */
 const EXTENSION_LABEL = 'Account (Success Overlay)';
+/** The plural the same extension declares with it (#30465). */
+const EXTENSION_PLURAL_LABEL = 'Accounts (Success Overlay)';
 /** What the showcase's `en` catalog declares for the same object. */
 const CATALOG_LABEL = 'Account';
 
@@ -280,6 +282,30 @@ describe('dogfood: the object-extension fold and the i18n catalog disagree on sc
         expect(labelOf(singleBody?.item)).toBe(EXTENSION_LABEL);
     });
 
+    it('[#30465] the renamed object is served the extension\'s plural with its label, in en and zh-CN', async () => {
+        // An extension that renames `label` with no `pluralLabel` is served with
+        // no plural (the base's `Accounts` names the old label), and a list title
+        // reads the plural first. So the extension declares the pair, and both
+        // translated reads serve it. Both values diverge from the packaged base,
+        // so the showcase's code catalog yields to them in every locale: zh-CN
+        // serves the pair as written, the singular and the plural alike.
+        const declared = (showcaseStack as any)?.objectExtensions
+            ?.find((e: any) => e?.extend === 'showcase_account');
+        expect(declared?.pluralLabel).toBe(EXTENSION_PLURAL_LABEL);
+        for (const locale of ['en', 'zh-CN']) {
+            const headers = { Authorization: `Bearer ${token}`, 'Accept-Language': locale };
+            const single: any = await (await stack.api('/meta/object/showcase_account', { headers })).json();
+            const listRes = await stack.api('/meta/object', { headers });
+            const listBody: any = await listRes.json();
+            const listed = ((Array.isArray(listBody) ? listBody : (listBody?.items ?? listBody?.data ?? [])) as any[])
+                .find((o) => o?.name === 'showcase_account');
+            for (const [read, doc] of [['item', single?.item], ['list', listed]] as const) {
+                expect(labelOf(doc), `${locale} ${read} label`).toBe(EXTENSION_LABEL);
+                expect(doc?.pluralLabel, `${locale} ${read} pluralLabel`).toBe(EXTENSION_PLURAL_LABEL);
+            }
+        }
+    });
+
     it('[ADR-0131 D6] the Studio rename round-trip of a PACKAGED object is refused, hatch open — nothing is stored', async () => {
         // The round-trip the rename cases below used to perform: GET the served
         // document, rename it, PUT it back. Managed content is sealed, so the