Xbox allows spaces! "Silent Knight" looks much cleaner than "SilentKnight."

Go to Or start the gamertag change flow at https://www.xbox.com/en-US/change-gamertag

A common topic in these posts is the speculation of when names become available. The general consensus is that Microsoft frees up tags from accounts that have been inactive for roughly 5 years, but there is no official clock. This makes checking availability a bit of a guessing game—you might see a name is taken, but have no way of knowing if that user logged in yesterday or in 2008.

To see if a name exists a suffix:

: If the name is taken, the tool should display how the name will appear with the auto-generated suffix in modern games vs. legacy titles. 3. Implementation Methods

Since 2019, Xbox allows users to pick a name that is already taken by adding a (e.g., Gamer#1234 ).

If you’re signed in, you’ll also see if the name can be used as a “classic” gamertag (no suffix) or only as a new-style one with numbers.