How To Find the Creation Date of your Gmail or Google Account

Robert Hayes September 15, 2022

Google collects a lot of information about its users and their activities online. Why would you need to know when your Google account came into being? Well, for one thing, if you ever get locked out of your Google Account, the date you created it is one of the recovery questions you can use to regain access to the account. Second, you may have several Google accounts and want to know when a particular account got created.

This article shows you how to find out the creation date of your Google Account, plain and simple.

Use Your Gmail to Find the Creation Date of Your Google Account

Most users got a Google account as a side effect of opening a Gmail account, and it is from within Gmail that you can find out when you created it. The start date of your Gmail account is the same as your Google Account. You can never have the two established at different dates—only aliases within your Gmail account.

Here are the steps to find the creation date of your Google Account:

Open the correct “Gmail” account and select the “cog icon” (Settings).
Select “Forwarding and POP/IMAP.” from the “Settings” menu at the top.
Look at the “POP Download” section. Look at the first line, “Status: Pop is enabled for all mail that has arrived since [MM/DD/YY],” which displays the date you created the account.