--- title: "How To Change Your Gmail Username" description: "Changing your Gmail username may be necessary if your name recently changed (say if you got married) or if you were given a default name for your Google Apps account. For example, we were recently..." url: https://www.boxcarmarketing.com/how-to-change-your-gmail-username/ date: 2012-03-08 modified: 2025-10-10 author: "Crissy Campbell" image: https://www.boxcarmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/send-mail-as.jpg categories: ["Tech Support for Non-Techies"] type: post lang: en --- # How To Change Your Gmail Username Changing your Gmail username may be necessary if your name recently changed (say if you got married) or if you were given a default name for your Google Apps account. For example, we were recently given the name “General Delivery 2” for a Google Apps account and we didn’t want this to appear as our name in someone’s inbox. You risk people deleting your emails if it’s not clear who they are from. **Here’s how to change the name linked to your Gmail address:** **1.** Go to your Gmail inbox. **2.** Under the gear icon in the top right corner beside your name, click on Mail settings. ”Gmail **3.** In your Settings under the Account tab, click on edit info under “Send mail as:” !(https://www.boxcarmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/send-mail-as.jpg) **4.** You can change your name in the popup window. !(https://www.boxcarmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/edit-email-address.jpg) Make sure to choose a name for your Gmail address that makes it clear that there’s a person behind the email. Please, no General Delivery 2’s. ## Need to change your Twitter name or Facebook Page name? (https://www.boxcarmarketing.com/how-to-change-your-twitter-name-without-losing-followers/) (https://www.boxcarmarketing.com/how-to-change-your-facebook-page-name/)