The song entered the Australian Singles Chart and the Canadian Hot 100; it peaked at numbers ninety-one and eighty-four, respectively.

Usher and will.i.am performed the song at the 2008 National Football League Kickoff game concert, and it was also used in a Sony Ericsson contest.

Contestants entered by sending videos of themselves singing twenty to sixty seconds of Usher's parts of the song.

[14] Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune compared the song's synth riff to the music that was popular during the 1980s MTV generation,[15] while John Soeder from The Plain Dealer noted its similarity to British duo the Eurythmics.

[13] Chad Grischow from IGN also chose the song as one of the album's best tracks, and called it appropriate for "a windows-down spring car ride".

[18] Digital Spy's Nick Levine called the song "rubbery" and danceable and compared it to Timbaland's work.

[19] In his mixed review of the song, Waleed Hafeez from The National wrote, "'What's Your Name', produced by will.i.am, provides listeners with another club track, albeit an average one".