diff --git a/Jellyfin.Server.Implementations/Users/UserManager.cs b/Jellyfin.Server.Implementations/Users/UserManager.cs
index f54355f2a7..3ff725d65d 100644
--- a/Jellyfin.Server.Implementations/Users/UserManager.cs
+++ b/Jellyfin.Server.Implementations/Users/UserManager.cs
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ namespace Jellyfin.Server.Implementations.Users
         // This is some regex that matches only on unicode "word" characters, as well as -, _ and @
         // In theory this will cut out most if not all 'control' characters which should help minimize any weirdness
         // Usernames can contain letters (a-z + whatever else unicode is cool with), numbers (0-9), at-signs (@), dashes (-), underscores (_), apostrophes ('), periods (.) and spaces ( )
-        [GeneratedRegex(@"^[\w\ \-'._@+]+$")]
+        [GeneratedRegex(@"^(?!\s)[\w \-'._@]+(?<!\s)$")]
         private static partial Regex ValidUsernameRegex();
 
         /// <inheritdoc/>
@@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ namespace Jellyfin.Server.Implementations.Users
 
         internal static void ThrowIfInvalidUsername(string name)
         {
-            if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(name) && ValidUsernameRegex().IsMatch(name) && !char.IsWhiteSpace(name[0]) && !char.IsWhiteSpace(name[^1]))
+            if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(name) && ValidUsernameRegex().IsMatch(name))
             {
                 return;
             }