diff --git a/tableauserverclient/models/connection_item.py b/tableauserverclient/models/connection_item.py
index 3e8c6d290..e155a3e3a 100644
--- a/tableauserverclient/models/connection_item.py
+++ b/tableauserverclient/models/connection_item.py
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ def from_response(cls, resp, ns) -> list["ConnectionItem"]:
             connection_item.embed_password = string_to_bool(connection_xml.get("embedPassword", ""))
             connection_item.server_address = connection_xml.get("serverAddress", connection_xml.get("server", None))
             connection_item.server_port = connection_xml.get("serverPort", connection_xml.get("port", None))
-            connection_item.username = connection_xml.get("userName", None)
+            connection_item.username = connection_xml.get("userName", connection_xml.get("username", None))
             connection_item._query_tagging = (
                 string_to_bool(s) if (s := connection_xml.get("queryTagging", None)) else None
             )
diff --git a/test/assets/virtual_connection_populate_connections.xml b/test/assets/virtual_connection_populate_connections.xml
index 77d899520..0835e478f 100644
--- a/test/assets/virtual_connection_populate_connections.xml
+++ b/test/assets/virtual_connection_populate_connections.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
 <tsResponse xmlns="http://tableau.com/api" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://tableau.com/api http://tableau.com/api/ts-api-2.3.xsd">
     <virtualConnectionConnections>
-    <connection id="37ca6ced-58d7-4dcf-99dc-f0a85223cbef" dbClass="postgres" serverAddress="localhost" userName="pgadmin" serverPort="5432"/>
+    <connection id="37ca6ced-58d7-4dcf-99dc-f0a85223cbef" dbClass="postgres" serverAddress="localhost" username="pgadmin" serverPort="5432"/>
     </virtualConnectionConnections>
 </tsResponse>
diff --git a/test/assets/virtual_connection_populate_connections2.xml b/test/assets/virtual_connection_populate_connections2.xml
index f0ad2646d..78ff90f65 100644
--- a/test/assets/virtual_connection_populate_connections2.xml
+++ b/test/assets/virtual_connection_populate_connections2.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
 <tsResponse xmlns="http://tableau.com/api" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://tableau.com/api http://tableau.com/api/ts-api-2.3.xsd">
     <virtualConnectionConnections>
-    <connection connectionId="37ca6ced-58d7-4dcf-99dc-f0a85223cbef" dbClass="postgres" server="localhost" userName="pgadmin" port="5432"/>
+    <connection connectionId="37ca6ced-58d7-4dcf-99dc-f0a85223cbef" dbClass="postgres" server="localhost" username="pgadmin" port="5432"/>
     </virtualConnectionConnections>
 </tsResponse>