# Renaming users - YAY or NAY?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/renaming-users-yay-or-nay/74481>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [21 Novembre 2017, 4:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/renaming-users-yay-or-nay/74481 "2017-11-21T04:53:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [22 Luglio 2018, 7:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/renaming-users-yay-or-nay/74481/11 "2018-07-22T07:48:31Z")

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With recent GDPR improvements, renaming a user touches more or less all the places that user name would appear now.

So yes, it is safe to do anywhere, but remember that by default Discourse disallows self-initiated username changes a few days after an account is created, for consistency reasons.

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