Google Workspace: Renaming a Workspace User
In this article
- Renaming a Workspace user via your Wix account
- Changing the username and/or display name in Google Workspace
- FAQs
Rename your user on Google Workspace to keep your business content up to date, reflect employee changeover or change the name of a business email (e.g., change sales@mystunningwebsite.com to invoices@mystunningwebsite.com).
Before you begin:
Purchase a personalized
Google Workspace business email.
Notes:
- The Workspace user account will not lose any data when you rename a user.
- The user's current email address will become an alias to ensure emails are still delivered when sent to the old address.
Renaming a Workspace user via your Wix account
Change the first name, last name, and email username of any user within your Wix account (i.e. 'nathan' in nathan@mystunningwebsite.com).
To rename a user via your Wix account:
Before you begin:
Sign out of your Workspace account to change your display name or username.
- Go to Business Email in your Wix account.
- Click the More Actions icon
next to the relevant user. - Select Rename your user.
- Fill in the details you want to change - first name, last name, or email username.
- Click Rename your user.
Changing the username and/or display name in Google Workspace
Change the email username and/or the display name (first and last name) of any of the Google Workspace users in your Google Workspace Admin console.
To change the username and/or display name of a user in Google Workspace:
- Go to Business Email in your Wix account.
- Click the More Actions icon .
- Click Manage at Google.
- Sign in to your Google Workspace account:
- Enter your email address.
- Click Next.
- Enter the password.
- Click Sign In.
- Click Users.
- Click the Rename icon
next to the relevant user. - Edit the user details.
- Click Rename user.
FAQs
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What happens in Google Talk after changing these details?
How long before the updated name is available?