Whether you're looking to change your name or email address in Gmail, we'll show you how to do it easily.
Your email name is the sender's name that appears when you send an email. Your email username, on the other hand, is your email address. Your Gmail username is also your Google username by default.
How to change your email name on Gmail
By default, your Gmail name and your Google account name are the same. If you want to change it, you can choose to just change your Gmail name or change your Google account name.
Note that changing your Google Account name changes your name across all of your Google apps.
How to change your Gmail name
- by entering your username and password.
- Click the gear icon in the upper right corner of the screen and select View all settings.
- Click the Accounts and Import tab.
- Right under the Send Message As heading, click the Edit Info button.
- Enter the new name you want to appear in the emails, select the button next to it and click the Save Changes button.
How to change your Google account name
Changing your Google Account name will change your Gmail name. This will also change your name on all other Google apps. If you still want to proceed, here's how:
- Log in to your.
- Click the Personal Information tab in the left sidebar.
- On the Basic Info tab, click the Name tab showing the name you want to change.
- You can change your first name, last name or both. Then click the Save button.
How to change your Gmail email address
It is not possible to change the existing Google username or email address.
You can create a new account and then import the data from your old account into it.
- Create a new account and Google and log in to it.
- Click the gear icon in the upper right corner of the screen, then select View all settings.
- Click the Accounts and Import tab.
- Under Import mail and contacts, click the Import mail and contacts button.
- A new window will appear. Type in your old email username and click the Continue button.
- The new window will ask you to log into your old account. Log into it, then click the Continue button.
- A new window will appear asking you to choose an account to continue. Choose your old account. Gmail will ask you for permission to access it. Click Allow and close the window.
- Go to the first pop-up window and select the import options for your old account. You can import contacts, mail and all new mail for the next 30 days from your old account to your new account.
- When the process is complete, a message will be displayed. Click the Ok button, go to your new Gmail account and refresh the page.
- You can now see the emails from your old account in a folder with the name of your old account.
