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How To Change A Group Name On Facebook in 2024?

If you are an admin, you’ll be able to change your group name on Facebook easily. Let’s look at the step-wise process of how to change a group name on Facebook below. 

Steps to Change a Group Name on Facebook

1. Log in to your Facebook account from your laptop or desktop

2. From the left-hand side of your news feed, select the group you’d like to change the name of

How to change facebook group name on mobile

3. Select ‘Settings’ from the list of options on the left

Name and Description Setting | how to change group name on Facebook

4. Under ‘Set up group’, tap on ‘Name and Description’

how to change a group name on Facebook?

5. Change your group name and hit save

Facebook Group name change

If you’re wondering how to change your group name on iPhone, scroll down as we’ve covered that too.

You can also seek answers to some frequently asked questions like how to change your group name before 28 days, after 5000 members and after limit.

How to change group name on Facebook mobile?

1. Open the Facebook app on your mobile device

2. Tap on the three horizontal lines at the bottom, click on ‘Your groups’, and select the group you want to change the name of

Facebook group name change via Mobile

3. Click on star icon or admin tools option on the top right and select ‘Group Settings’

Group Settings | how to change group name on Facebook?

4. Under ‘Set up group’, tap on ‘Name and Description’

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5. Change your group name and hit save

Facebook Group Settings for Name

How to change Facebook group name before 28 days?

You can change your Facebook group name only ONCE in 28 days as per Facebook guidelines.

You can fix any spelling errors and add/remove emojis within some time (30 mins approximately) of changing the name.

However, you might be able to change it more than once in 28 days if your Facebook group is new.

How to change your group name after 5000 members?

You cannot change your group name if your Facebook group has over 5000 members.

Facebook says, “We don’t allow admins to change a group’s name when the group reaches 5,000 members to prevent abuse. We do this because closed and public group names, members and group descriptions are visible to anyone and may be seen as part of someone’s identity on Facebook.”

How to change Facebook group name after limit?

There’s no possible way to change your group name after the limit of 5000 members. But, you can see if these hacks work.

  1. Update your Facebook mobile app and then try changing the name
  2. In the case of desktop, log out of your account, close the browser, clear all cache, and see if you can change the name
  3. Ask your co-admin to try changing the name of your Facebook group

That’s about it.

If you’d like to learn about how you can choose a name that’d help grow your group or would like to see a list of Facebook group names to get some inspiration, refer to this blog 👇🏻

How to choose a Facebook group name that helps grow your group organically

Feel free to ask away any queries you might have! Drop them in the comments below, or you can write to us in our Facebook group where thousands of admins discuss this and more about community building. 🙂

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