Google Workspace: Renaming a Workspace User

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.

1. Go to Business Email in your Wix account.

2. Click the More Actions icon  next to the relevant user.

3. Select Rename your user.

4. Fill in the details you want to change - first name, last name, or email username.

5. 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:

1. Go to Business Email in your Wix account.

2. Click the More Actions icon  .

3. Click Manage at Google.

4. Sign in to your Google Workspace account:Enter your email address.
   Click Next.
   Enter the password.
   Click Sign In.
   

5. Click Users.

6. Click the Rename icon next to the relevant user.

7. Edit the user details.

8. Click Rename user.

FAQs

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What happens in Google Talk after changing these details?

After changing these details, all the contacts in the user's Google Talk chat list will be removed. The user might not be able to use chat for up to 3 days.

How long before the updated name is available?

The rename operation can take up to 10 minutes.