Work email formats and naming conventions

The most common corporate pattern in English-speaking companies, and the one most finders try first.

Common at smaller companies and at firms that treat the local part as a first name. Collides when two people share a first name.

A compact pattern: first initial plus last name. Very common in larger directories.

No separator. Slightly harder to read, easy to generate, and common at tech companies.

First initial, a dot, last name. A close cousin of flast, and easy to confuse with it until you verify.

First name plus last initial. Less common, and it collides fast inside a team.

Last name first. More common in some European directories than in US tech.

Last name then first name, no separator. Same idea as last.first without the dot.

Just the last name. Only works in very small teams, and it collides immediately.

Underscore separator. More common in older IT directories than in Google Workspace defaults.

Initial, underscore, last name. Same family as flast with a different separator.

Hyphen separator. Easy to mix up with first.last; the mail server is the tie-break.

Initial, hyphen, last name. Rare, but real, which is why it is in the generator.