You can indeed change the name that the Amazon Alexa enabled speakers respond to when you say it. Furthermore, the current name choices are, “Alexa…,” “Amazon…,” “Computer…,” “Echo…,” and “Ziggy…”
The word is the name you call out when you want Alexa to start listening for a follow-up request. It’s how you “get her attention,” so to speak. This setting is not customizable beyond these choices; at least, not yet.
You might wish to change this name for a particular Echo speaker device. Then they don’t all respond at once when you call her. This name is speaker-specific. So if you have many Alexas around the house, you could assign each one a different name.
Following are instructions on how to set this watch word for a specific Echo device connected to your Amazon account.
How to Change Alexa Name or Rename Her, Step by Step
1. Find the Alexa App on your Mobile Device
So we find the app on the third page of the home screen on our iOS based iPad tablet.
2. Then, Run the Alexa App to Change Alexa Name
You should then get the Alexa app Home screen.
3. Tap the Settings Option to Continue with How to Change Alexa Name
Touching this item brings up the Settings screen, as shown next.
4. Tap the Echo Speaker Whose Name you Wish to Change
We’re going to change the Living Room speaker’s trigger word here. So, when we tapped that device on the screen above, we got the next screen back.
5. Tap the Wake Word Item
You should then see the Change your Wake Word screen, similar to the following.
6. Tap the Wake Word Choices Pull Down Menu Item to Continue with How to Change Alexa Name
That menu then expands, and appears as follows.
7. Tap the Wake Word Name Choice you Wish
In our case, we’re changing our living room speaker to Computer. So, we tap the Computer item on that menu.
The app then returns us to the Change Your Wake Word screen as follows. But now, the value in the Wake Word Choices pull down combo box is Computer, as shown.
8. Tap the Save Button to Change Alexa Name
Then, the Changing Wake Word window pops up briefly, as shown following.
Then the Wake Word Changed window appears as follows.
9. Press the Close Button
At last, your Alexa Echo speaker should now respond to her new name. Test it out.