How is my email? It’s fine, and it thanks you for asking! ☺️

I happen to have first.middle.last@acertainfreehost that I use for government things. I wanted first.last, but there are a few of “me” out there and one of them beat me to it.

Which is partly to say that you might find that now you’ve posted your ideas here that someone has taken them all before you, so I hope you didn’t use your real name. And I still feel sorry for ol’ Dennis if you didn’t.

One alternative might be to get your own domain name. Plenty of hosting companies will do a domain and mail forwarding if not some tier of hosting for cheap. Many give a handful of accounts in the base price. (Though it should be noted that it’s a well-known money grab because it’s usually very simple to have <anything>@domain go to one mailbox for collection and sorting elsewhere. Storage management does not have to be at the mailbox level either.)

You should have no fewer than 3 email addresses. 1 for official use that you shouldn’t feel embarrassed about giving to another adult or putting on a resume. 2nd for anonymous logins or at least for those frequent but maybe expect a little spam. 3rd you can have as many as you want but you need spam/throw away email addresses.

That being said, none of them should give away too much information about you but the official email should give just enough of a hint so that someone that knows you might recognize your email address. So never put your full name or an important date/number in your email address.

After a long explanation why, I recommend first name letter after full last name with a symbol.

I have two addresses that both end up in the same inbox. The other is firstname.lastname and I only give that to people/businesses that know my name anyway - everyone else gets the other one which doesn’t include my name.

firstname at firstnamelastname dot extension

Do not use your real name or any other personally identifiable information in your email address.

For professional email I recommend firstname.lastname@domain because it’s very common and lets people almost uniquely identify you from your email address alone. You could also register a domain such as lastname.com such that you can use firstname@lastname.com. Just make sure to use a reputable email host to make sure that your emails don’t end up in spam.

preferredName@mydomain.com

my preferred name (short version of my name) is a few letters long

my personal email does not feature my name in any form

Lastname@gmail.com
Firstname@lastname.com

…the result of having an extremely rare last name.

Protect your privacy by never using your name, phone, post code, DOB in your email address. Make it something short and easy to remember, as well as easy to say to people when they ask for it. If it’s your personal domain, you can do anything. Perhaps you are an airplane enthusiast, it could be 747@MyPersonalDomain.org, but if it’s not your domain you need to be creative, Seven47@mail.com easy to remember and not embarrassing like HotGrannie1912@coolmail.com .

I have a work email, an email with my name for only personal/professional contacts outside work, a sign-up email, and my email from 2005 for some reason that I use for dominos.

its pretty hard to get anything without numbers or such. are you running your own? If so I would just take something you like that is easy to spell and hopefully our domain is short and easy to spell.

Buy a domain, and you have all of the addresses.

For personal email mail@initialslastname.eu

Our family all have their own initialslastname.eu or .nl domain for official stuff.