Username or User Name?

Prateek Gupta
1 min readAug 17, 2016

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This comes across a million time when I am putting a placeholder in a login page. What should I use, Username or User Name?

Well Both are correct but there is a small difference when we see from users perspective.

“Username” is the unique word that a user created while registering and that he will type in with his password, for example: bobsmith. And mostly website use this.

But “User Name” is the name of the user, the user’s real life name, for example: Bob Smith.

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Prateek Gupta

Writer, artist, marathon runner, travel freak, comic fan and a gym addict. Currently working as Associate Manager, Product Design @ Flipkart