https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1350409?hl=en Lists the
countries that have restrictions.

They are simply prohibited from making the account, once they are old
enough to create it, I do not believe there are any restrictions on what
the name could be, apart from the normal restrictions against certain words.



On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 4:05 PM, Eric Rossman <[email protected]> wrote:

> Google will not allow user under a certain age (depends on country)
> have their own Google account. For the US, that age is 13.
>
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 12:27 AM, Andy <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is it true that Gmail doesn't let young users (below some age) use their
> own
> > names when they open a Gmail account?
> >
> > If so, can their parents intervene to change the name for them, or will
> > Google not allow anyone to change the name until the user is old enough?
> > And how old would that be?
> >
> > I don't know if it matters, but I am asking about users in the USA.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Andy
> >
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