Username checker

Is your dream @handle free?

Type a username, get an instant answer — and smart alternatives when it's taken.

Check before you brand

Your handle is your brand's address. Before you print it on a business card or buy the matching domain, check it here — and check the variants you'd accept, because the difference between @brand and @brand.official matters less than you think and costs nothing to test.

What makes a good Instagram username

Short, spellable, and searchable. Avoid strings of underscores and trailing dots-and-digits that read like spam. If your exact word is taken, keep it intact and add a clean modifier: the., .co, _in for Indian brands, or your niche keyword.

One tap to re-check

Every suggestion this tool shows is tappable — it fills the box and runs the check instantly, so you can burn through ten candidates in under a minute.

FAQ

Quiet answers.

We look for a live public profile on that handle. “Available” means no active account answers to it right now — Instagram may still hold recently-deleted or reserved names, so the app has the final word.

Up to 30 characters: letters, numbers, dots and underscores. No spaces, no consecutive dots, and it can't start or end with a dot.

Tap our suggestions (the.name, name.official, name_in …) — each one is checkable with a single tap. Prefixes and suffixes that keep your brand word intact work best for search.

Instagram doesn't hand over inactive handles on request, except for trademark cases via their official process. Your practical move is a strong variant of the name.