I have a popular group page on Facebook that I manage and as it’s become more busy, the original name doesn’t really describe it any more. Is there any way to change my Facebook group name or am I stuck?
Facebook is actually becoming more flexible as time passes, rather surprisingly. I think the only thing you definitely can’t change, the only thing that’s just locked into place once you choose it, is a shortened URL shortcut. So when I picked the shortened URL for the Ask Dave Taylor fan page — fb.com/askdavetaylor — it was basically carved into stone.
Fortunately the group name isn’t in that small category of permanent names, and it’s not entirely obvious how to change it, but it can be done.
That’s why you’re here, right?! 🙂
To start, go to your group page on Facebook but don’t click on “Edit Settings” because it ain’t what you want. Instead look down the right side of the page. About a third of the way down you’ll see these options:
Click on “Edit Group” and you’ll see a ton of different options that you can modify, most importantly the group name:
Let’s zoom in a bit on that so you can see what it looks like:
To change your Facebook group name, simply click in the text box that has the current name and use DELETE, arrows and similar to change the name to one that’s more appropriate. For this demonstration, I changed the group name from “Front Range Blogger Meetup: The Facebook Group” to just “Front Range Blogger Meetup”.
When you’ve set it properly, click on “Save” at the bottom of the window and…
Done. Not too hard once you know where to click.
Confusingly, though, the page that includes the notification of the change being accepted still has the old name displayed:
No worries. That’s just a caching problem: click on “Back to Group” and we see the proper name:
Now we’re done and it’s confirmed.
I should mention that everyone in the group will see an update notification that the name has been changed, but I can’t imagine that’s an issue:
Good luck with your own Facebook group name change!
IT DOES NOT WORK ON MY APPLE MAC
We have a group for our church: Calvary Baptist Church in Chillicothe, OH. I am trying to see if the group name displayed at the top of the group can contain more letters. When we try to add anything beyond the church name, it will accepts a few more letters then……… Can that field be expanded or is there a way to create a second or third line of text?
The fb group I admin has less than 400 members. There’s a note in the Edit Group Setting that say “You can only change the name of a group you admin if it has fewer than 5,000 members.” I wanted to change the name, but I can’t because there’s no text box next to the Group Name, although the number of member is just less than 400. Please help.
I have just done it next to notifications click on the three dots … edit group settings just delete current name type in new one and hit save Job done. Thanks
I’m having the same problem, I only need to change one letter because of a typo but I can’t because I have 900 members. Please help.
In facebook, you can only change the group name if the group has not more than 250 people (unfortunately 🙁 )
didnt work for older version
nope didn’t work for me either. has to be an older version, tab was at the top not 2/3 of the page as mentioned.
You need to pick “Edit Group Settings” off the ‘gear’ menu when you’re looking at a group you own — a group you’re a member of will not let you make this change, of course.
Please help…not working for me..
my group page doesn’t have an edit group settings option and no boxes 1/3 way down as you say above. Any other suggestions?
Dear people,
I have the same problem with the ‘ big ‘ facebook group with over 1200 people in it which is essential for my event organisation.
Please send a complain or feedback to facebook @ :: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/?id=197060467057875
Thanks in advance!
Yes, my FB site is now at 450 members and I cannot change the name, either. There is no option to do so. Will it someday be possible to? Thank you for your answer.
my group has only 727 members, but I am not given the option of changing the group name either. And I really need to!
Eh, I guess we have WAY too many over 3700 members. I tried too, won’t let you. Guess it’s probably because that sort of number is too large to send out notifications of the change. Makes sense but damn what a pia.
I found the page, but I don’t have an option to change the name, only the type of group by symbol. Are there restrictions, or has FB changed the option since this was written? If it matters, my group has 1300+ members.
I am not able to change the name of my group – it has 1500+ members but was just created yesterday. I am an admin that was added after it was created but I don’t think FB keeps track of things like that and the creator wasn’t able to change it either.
Any insight you can give is VERY appreciated!