Title: User name invalid
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# User name invalid

 *  [maxianna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maxianna/)
 * (@maxianna)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-name-invalid/)
 * Hello,
 * I have my website running and today I tried to add a new user, with the name ‘
   cornelia’. For some unknown reasons, it gives me this error message:
    “This username
   is invalid because it uses illegal characters. Please enter a valid username.”
   As you can see, I don’t use any capitals or weird characters.
 * Anyone has some ideas about this issue?
 * Thanks for your help.

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 * Last reply from: [maxianna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maxianna/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-name-invalid/)
 * Status: not resolved

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