Use ?? operator at the end of your <#if> statement.
This example demonstrates how to handle null values for two lists in a Freemaker template.
List of cars:
<#if cars??>
<#list cars as car>${car.owner};</#list>
</#if>
List of motocycles:
<#if motocycles??>
<#list motocycles as motocycle>${motocycle.owner};</#list>
</#if>
Scenario: Customer has ID and name combined like 13242 Harish, so where our stakeholder need the only name, so I have tried this ${record.entity?keep_after(" ")} and it did work, however, it can only work when you have space, but when a customer doesn't have space and one name, I had to do some IF ELSE condition to check Null value.