This page is going to show you how to find an available username or channel name to create an account at YouTube.com
You can do a specialized YouTube search or use the free YouTube username search tool.
🧾 YouTube.com Username Availability Check 📺
For some people, finding an available YouTube username that contains certain keywords and phrases is important, especially those who have business or monetization intentions with YouTube. For example if you're in the natural acne cure niche, wouldn't it be great to get the YouTube channel or username that is NaturalAceCure?
Not only would it look more professional but it would help out the rankings of your channel in your YouTube video because of the search engine optimization implications of your keyword or key phrase being in your YouTube channel OR username.
How to find the YouTube username that is as close to what you want that is available
The most laborious method is, when signing up for YouTube account or trying to find a channel name that hasn't been taken, is to simply try different ones until you finally get notification that is available or take your keyword or key phrase and add a couple of numbers at the end of it.
The better way is to use our YouTube username search tool. With this tool, you enter in your desired username and see what comes back for search results. If no search results for a YouTube username appear then that username should be available for you to use.
The tool is purposely design to only return results that contain www.youtube.com/channel/ or www.youtube.com/user/ in the url so there will be less irrelevant results you will have to sort through.
How to use the YouTube username search tool to create your perfect username or channel name
- Go to the YouTube Username search tool.
- Enter the username that you want or, if you're creating a YouTube account and/or channel for Internet moneymaking purposes, enter in your main keyword phrases your niche. This gets entered in the
Enter Username
text box.
- Press the
Search YouTube by Username
button.
It's important to note that you enter your desired username WITHOUT any spaces. The default search results MAY be for what you entered WITH spaces, depending upon what you entered in the textbox, but because YouTube user and channel names contain no spaces its important to make sure the results returned are ones without spaces.
Pay attention to the URLS/WEB ADDRESSES of the search results. If there are no results returned with your desired username in the url then that username should be available for your taking!
Another Method to See if a YouTube Channel Name is Available
Another way to find out if a channel name for YouTube is available or taken if perform a specialized YouTube search.
- Go to YouTube YouTube.
- Enter the username or channel that you want in the YouTube search text box.
- Click on
Filters
at the top of the page.
- Click on
Channel
so YouTube only search for YouTube channels for the value you enter in the YouTube search box.
- If the exact channel name you entered in the YouTube search box is not shown in the search results, then it is available for you to use.