# Is there any way to change one's user name?

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**Created:** [August 27, 2006, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-to-change-ones-user-name/370465 "2006-08-27T22:51:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2006, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-to-change-ones-user-name/370465/1 "2006-08-27T22:51:20Z")

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Is there any way to change one’s user name?

I’d really like mine to be The Sarcastic Fringehead.

Can it be done? Of am I SOL?

-FrL-

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**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2006, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-to-change-ones-user-name/370465/2 "2006-08-27T22:59:12Z")

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Look in the [FAQ thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=103503)

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2006, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-to-change-ones-user-name/370465/3 "2006-08-27T23:04:59Z")

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Email [tubadiva@aol.com](mailto:tubadiva@aol.com) Good luck.

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-way-to-change-ones-user-name/370465/4 "2006-08-28T17:31:45Z")

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Sarcastic Fringehead! One of my favorites and the Unofficial Straight Dope fish – it looks like a little old man shuffling along there in the tank or at least that’s how it looked to me when I saw it at the Shedd Aquarium on a field trip a few years back.

If Cecil was a fish, this would be it.

This would be he.

It would be him.

Whatever.

Yes, you can change your name . . . but “Sarcastic Fringehead” is already taken. Sorry. Please send me a list of a few names you like ranked in the order you like them and I’ll run down the list until I hit one that works.

[TubaDiva@aol.com](mailto:TubaDiva@aol.com)