Title: Changing Usernames?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Changing Usernames?

 *  [geeb10](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geeb10/)
 * (@geeb10)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-usernames/)
 * I know that under the “Users” tab, the WordPress instructions say that you cannot
   change usernames. Is there any way around this? Can you “un-register” people 
   to change their usernames?
 * We want our post authors to have more official names (first and last) for our
   blog, but we are stuck with informal usernames. Please help!

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 *  [Darin Kotter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dkotter/)
 * (@dkotter)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-usernames/#post-2435306)
 * You can’t change usernames, but you can go in under each user, add their First
   and Last name, and then there’s an option for ‘Display name publicly as’ and 
   you can set that to be their username, first name, last name, or first and last
   name.
 *  [DavyB](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davyb/)
 * (@davyb)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-usernames/#post-2435618)
 * [@geeb10](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geeb10/) you are hosted at wordpress.
   com you should be asking wordpress.com specific questions at forums.wordpress.
   com NOT wordpress.org/support, although the answers are extremely similar.
    You
   should simply change you display name NOT you username. If you were self-hosted
   or on paid hosting and have access to your database the username can be altered
   using database editing tools – which is often required to change the default 
   to something other than “admin” – the default when you setup with hosting under
   your control.

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 * Last reply from: [DavyB](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davyb/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-usernames/#post-2435618)
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