Your legal name is the name that you used when you first made a purchase or verified your identity on Google. It may also be the name that you used to sign up for certain business products or services.
Google uses your legal name to comply with regulations, enforce our transparency policies and prevent fraud.
Edit your legal name in your payments profile
Important: Your legal name should reflect your identity, like the name on your government-issued ID.
Changes will apply to services that use your legal name, as well as invoices and tax documents that Google sends you.
Allow up to five working days for the name update to occur. Once the information has been updated, you'll receive a confirmation email.
Change your legal name in Google payments centre- Sign in to your Google payments centre settings.
- If you have more than one profile:
- At the top right, next to your name, click the down arrow
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- Choose the profile that you want to edit.
- At the top right, next to your name, click the down arrow
- Next to 'Name', click Edit or
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- You may need to fill in a form to request a payments profile name update. If so, follow the on-screen instructions to enter your info, upload documents and re-verify your name.
- Enter your updated name.
- Click Save.
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- Go to myaccount.google.com/personal-info. You may be asked to sign in to your Google Account.
- Under 'Basic info', select Name.
- Tap or click Legal name.
- If you have more than one payments profile:
- Tap Switch.
- Select your payments profile.
- Tap Continue.
- If you have more than one payments profile:
- Tap or click Change legal name.
- Next to 'Name', click Edit or
- You may need to fill in a form to request a payments profile name update. If so, follow the on-screen instructions to enter your info, upload documents and re-verify your name.
- Enter your new name.
- Tap or click Save.
Cancel a payments profile legal name update
If you cancel and retry a name update, it'll go through the review process again. Allow up to five working days for the change to occur. Once the information has been updated, you'll receive a confirmation email.
Cancel your legal name update in Google payments centre- Sign in to Google payments centre settings.
- If you have more than one profile:
- At the top right, next to your name, click the down arrow
- Select the profile that you want to edit.
- At the top right, next to your name, click the down arrow
- Next to 'Name', click Edit or
- Click Change name
Cancel name change.
- To confirm, click Cancel name change.
Cancel name change.- Go to myaccount.google.com/personal-info. You may be asked to sign in to your Google Account.
- At the top left, select Personal info.
- Under 'Basic info', select Name
- Tap or click Legal name
- If you have more than one payments profile:
- Tap Switch.
- Select your payments profile.
- Tap Continue.
- If you have more than one payments profile:
- Check your status:
- If your name update is 'in review', tap or click Cancel name change.
- If your name update has 'action required', tap or click Cancel or retry name change.