Changing your GitHub username

About username changes

You can change your username to another username that is not currently in use. If the username you want is not available, consider other names or unique variations. Using a number, hyphen, or an alternative spelling might help you find a similar username that's still available.

If you hold a trademark for the username, you can find more information about making a trademark complaint on our Trademark Policy page.

If you do not hold a trademark for the name, you can choose another username or keep your current username. Suporte do GitHub cannot release the unavailable username for you. For more information, see Changing your username.

After changing your username, your old username becomes available for anyone else to claim. Most references to your repositories under the old username automatically change to the new username. However, some links to your profile won't automatically redirect.

GitHub cannot set up redirects for:

• @mentions using your old username
• Links to gists that include your old username

If you're a member of an empresa com usuários gerenciados, you cannot make changes to your username. Para saber mais, confira Tipos de contas do GitHub.

Se o namespace da conta inclui repositórios públicos que contêm uma ação listada no GitHub Marketplace ou que tinham mais de 100 clones ou mais de 100 usos do GitHub Actions na semana anterior à renomeação da sua conta, o GitHub desativa permanentemente a combinação antiga de nome do proprietário e do repositório (OLD-OWNER/REPOSITORY-NAME) quando você renomeia a sua conta. If you try to create a repository using a retired owner name and repository name combination, you will see the error: "The repository <REPOSITORY_NAME> has been retired and cannot be reused."

Se o namespace da conta incluir pacotes ou imagens de contêiner armazenados em um registro do GitHub Packages, o GitHub transferirá os pacotes e as imagens de contêiner para o novo namespace. Ao renomear a conta, você poderá interromper projetos que dependem desses pacotes. Se o namespace incluir imagens de contêiner que são públicas e têm mais de 5 mil downloads, o nome completo dessas imagens de contêiner (OLD-NAMESPACE/IMAGE-NAME) será desativado permanentemente quando você renomear a conta, para garantir que o nome da imagem de contêiner não possa ser reutilizado no futuro.

Repository references

After you change your username, GitHub will automatically redirect references to your repositories.

• Web links to your existing repositories will continue to work. This can take a few minutes to complete after you make the change.
• Command line pushes from your local repository clones to the old remote tracking URLs will continue to work.

If the new owner of your old username creates a repository with the same name as your repository, that will override the redirect entry and your redirect will stop working. Because of this possibility, we recommend you update all existing remote repository URLs after changing your username. For more information, see Gerenciar repositórios remote.

Links to your previous profile page

After changing your username, links to your previous profile page, such as https://github.com/previoususername, will return a 404 error. We recommend updating any links to your profile from elsewhere, such as your LinkedIn or Twitter profile.

Accounts logged in on GitHub Mobile

Accounts logged in on the GitHub Mobile app may continue to display your original username until you log out. To ensure your updated username is displayed, we recommend you sign out and back in to your account on each mobile device.

Your Git commits

If your Git commits are associated with another email address you've added to your GitHub account, they'll continue to be attributed to you and appear in your contributions graph after you've changed your username. For more information on setting your email address, see Configurar o endereço de e-mail do commit and Adicionar endereço de e-mail à sua conta do GitHub.

If you've been using a GitHub-provided private commit email address, whether or not your commit history will be retained after an account rename depends on the format of the email address. Git commits that are associated with your GitHub-provided noreply email address won't be attributed to your new username and won't appear in your contributions graph, unless your noreply email address is in the form of ID+USERNAME@users.noreply.github.com. Older versions of the noreply email address that do not contain a numeric ID will not be associated with your GitHub account after changing your username.

Your gists

After changing your username, the URLs to any public or secret gists will also change and previous links to these will return a 404 error. We recommend updating the links to these gists anywhere you may have shared them.

CODEOWNERS files

After changing your username, CODEOWNERS files that include your old username will need to be manually updated. When you view the CODEOWNERS files on GitHub, an error message is displayed if the file contains any unknown users, or users without write access. We recommend updating all relevant CODEOWNERS files with your new username. For more information, see Sobre os proprietários de código.

Changing your username

1. No canto superior direito de qualquer página do GitHub, clique sua foto de perfil e, em seguida, clique em Configurações.
2. Na barra lateral esquerda, clique em Conta.
3. In the "Change username" section, click Change username.
4. Read the warnings about changing your username. If you still want to change your username, click I understand, let's change my username.
5. Type a new username.
6. If the username you've chosen is available, click Change my username. If the username you've chosen is unavailable, you can try a different username or one of the suggestions you see.

Further reading

• Por que meus commits estão vinculados ao usuário errado?
• Política de nome de usuário do GitHub