Username

A username allows a user to authenticate to Roblox and make games. It is required for playing Roblox on Microsoft Windows or macOS. To log into an account, a user is required to authenticate oneself with a password or a 6 digit code for the purposes of accounting, security, logging, and resource management. This article describes what kinds of usernames are acceptable on Roblox and how unacceptable or doubtful usernames can be dealt with. It also specifies what a username is.

You choose your username when creating a user account. All games made or played using that account will then be attributed to the chosen username. It is also possible to request a change of username, and have your play activity and games re-attributed to the new name.

Changing Usernames
Originally, users were only allowed to change their names due to either privacy concerns (such as the username being a player's full name) or per request by the moderation team due to the name violating the ROBLOX Terms of Service. If a user did not provide an alternate name, the username would then be changed to [Content Deleted (NUMBER)] for usernames changed prior to 2014 or Reset[UserID] for names changed after 2014.

A feature released on October 22, 2013, allowed users to voluntarily change their name for a 1000 ROBUX fee. All usernames that are changed must satisfy all username requirements and the policies.

Namesniping is an activity people do to find rare or lucky names only earlier people could get. For example, ROBLOX and Player are examples of namesnipes. Most accounts are made for the purpose of taking the name before somebody else can; these accounts are often abandoned. However, some people, like 1337, trucks, Bob, Ded, pill, Troller, ton, and blazee are active within the ROBLOX community.

Username trends
Aside from namesniping, people often use username trends to make a unique name for themselves and still take the idea of namesniping or adding initials before a name. Some username trends go to the idea of online dating.

A list of popular name trends:
 * (Name)Wyd
 * Xx(Name)xX
 * xomq(name)
 * (name)Daily
 * (name)YT
 * (name)Aourh
 * ii(Name)
 * mlg(name)
 * dantdm(name)
 * dan(name)
 * denisdaily(name)
 * denis(name)
 * roblox(name)
 * (name)123
 * (name)123456789
 * (name)1234567890
 * (name)slayer
 * (name)(number)
 * pro(name)
 * mr(name)
 * i(name)
 * savage(name)
 * (name)savage


 * Itz(Name
 * x(name)
 * miss(name)


 * xx(name)

Username Restrictions
Username cannot:
 * have inappropriate phrases in them
 * have spaces
 * have more than 2 underscores
 * have more than 21 characters
 * have less than 3 characters (only achievable via hacks)
 * be the same as someone else’s username
 * have any special characters in them

Common Topics in Usernames

 * Movie Characters
 * Game Characters
 * Certain YouTubers
 * Pets
 * Family
 * Their own Youtube channel name

Usernames with 21+ characters.
In Roblox, it is possible to have usernames with 21 or more letters. These usernames are mostly occuring in Xbox related profiles.

Trivia

 * During the early stages of ROBLOX, usernames could have spaces in them, such as John Doe, and Jane Doe, though this feature was later removed during 2007 due to the fact that people could impersonate users by putting a space, and people were putting their real names as their username.
 * In December 2016, there was an exploit where people could make a new account that either was the same name a different user, "David " and "David" for an example, and people also used this to make 2 letter accounts, such as "pi " and "hi ". This was patched in the same month it was founded and all users that were made with the exploit were deleted.
 * A lot of users created alt accounts to make a lot of users.