diff --git a/app/controllers/api/forward_auth_controller.rb b/app/controllers/api/forward_auth_controller.rb
index 98daea8..4de8b7a 100644
--- a/app/controllers/api/forward_auth_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/api/forward_auth_controller.rb
@@ -88,6 +88,8 @@ module Api
           case key
           when :user, :email, :name
             [header_name, user.email_address]
+          when :username
+            [header_name, user.username] if user.username.present?
           when :groups
             user.groups.any? ? [header_name, user.groups.pluck(:name).join(",")] : nil
           when :admin
diff --git a/app/models/application.rb b/app/models/application.rb
index 1cc73f0..b6ef9b4 100644
--- a/app/models/application.rb
+++ b/app/models/application.rb
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ class Application < ApplicationRecord
     user: "X-Remote-User",
     email: "X-Remote-Email",
     name: "X-Remote-Name",
+    username: "X-Remote-Username",
     groups: "X-Remote-Groups",
     admin: "X-Remote-Admin"
   }.freeze
@@ -195,6 +196,8 @@ class Application < ApplicationRecord
         headers[header_name] = user.email_address
       when :name
         headers[header_name] = user.name.presence || user.email_address
+      when :username
+        headers[header_name] = user.username if user.username.present?
       when :groups
         headers[header_name] = user.groups.pluck(:name).join(",") if user.groups.any?
       when :admin
diff --git a/app/views/admin/applications/_form.html.erb b/app/views/admin/applications/_form.html.erb
index 97dc1f2..14ff96e 100644
--- a/app/views/admin/applications/_form.html.erb
+++ b/app/views/admin/applications/_form.html.erb
@@ -330,10 +330,10 @@
           <p class="font-medium">Optional: Customize header names sent to your application.</p>
           <div class="flex items-center gap-2">
             <button type="button" data-action="json-validator#format" class="text-xs bg-gray-100 hover:bg-gray-200 px-2 py-1 rounded">Format JSON</button>
-            <button type="button" data-action="json-validator#insertSample" data-json-sample='{"user": "Remote-User", "groups": "Remote-Groups", "email": "Remote-Email", "name": "Remote-Name", "admin": "Remote-Admin"}' class="text-xs bg-blue-100 hover:bg-blue-200 text-blue-700 px-2 py-1 rounded">Insert Example</button>
+            <button type="button" data-action="json-validator#insertSample" data-json-sample='{"user": "Remote-User", "groups": "Remote-Groups", "email": "Remote-Email", "name": "Remote-Name", "username": "Remote-Username", "admin": "Remote-Admin"}' class="text-xs bg-blue-100 hover:bg-blue-200 text-blue-700 px-2 py-1 rounded">Insert Example</button>
           </div>
         </div>
-        <p><strong>Default headers:</strong> X-Remote-User, X-Remote-Email, X-Remote-Name, X-Remote-Groups, X-Remote-Admin</p>
+        <p><strong>Default headers:</strong> X-Remote-User, X-Remote-Email, X-Remote-Name, X-Remote-Username, X-Remote-Groups, X-Remote-Admin</p>
         <div data-json-validator-target="status" class="text-xs font-medium"></div>
         <details class="mt-2">
           <summary class="cursor-pointer text-blue-600 hover:text-blue-800">Show available header keys and what data they send</summary>
@@ -341,9 +341,10 @@
             <p><code class="bg-gray-100 px-1 rounded">user</code> - User's email address</p>
             <p><code class="bg-gray-100 px-1 rounded">email</code> - User's email address</p>
             <p><code class="bg-gray-100 px-1 rounded">name</code> - User's display name (falls back to email if not set)</p>
+            <p><code class="bg-gray-100 px-1 rounded">username</code> - User's login username (only sent if set)</p>
             <p><code class="bg-gray-100 px-1 rounded">groups</code> - Comma-separated list of group names (e.g., "admin,developers")</p>
             <p><code class="bg-gray-100 px-1 rounded">admin</code> - "true" or "false" indicating admin status</p>
-            <p class="mt-2 italic">Example: <code class="bg-gray-100 px-1 rounded">{"user": "Remote-User", "groups": "Remote-Groups"}</code></p>
+            <p class="mt-2 italic">Example: <code class="bg-gray-100 px-1 rounded">{"user": "Remote-User", "groups": "Remote-Groups", "username": "Remote-Username"}</code></p>
             <p class="italic">Need custom user fields? Add them to user's custom_claims for OIDC tokens</p>
           </div>
         </details>