My UserName

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  scarredromeo · Member · Aug 18, 2018 at 3:17 am

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  Hello,

  I didn’t mean to change my username as more than a test and now I can’t change it back. It used to be ‘scarredromeo’ and now it is ‘bluesun74’. I would like to go back to my old name but it won’t let me.

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  khushboo2004 · Member · Aug 18, 2018 at 6:28 am

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  Once you change your username you will not be able to change it back and the old name will not be available for you or anyone to use.

  Sorry, you can not change your username back to the old one, but if have changed only display name, you can change it back to the old one.

  To know more about this, please go through the following document:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/change-your-username/

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  scarredromeo · Member · Aug 18, 2018 at 6:38 am

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  Umm. This is horrible. It doesn’t say this anywhere when you do it. I want this changed back.

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  gemmacevans · Member · Aug 19, 2018 at 8:29 am

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  Hi bluesun74,

  Once a username has been changed, it isn’t possible to go back to and use the old one again. There is more information about policy here (also see “step 5”):

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/change-your-username/

  While that username is no longer available, you could use it as your display name instead:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/change-your-username/#change-display-name-nickname