Ideas for email address without numbers + common name

[commonname]

I'm trying to sign up for a professional email address on Gmail (not as good as having my own domain but better than hotmail, yahoo, isp etc) but literally every combination of my name is taken. first.last, last.first, first initial.last etc even adding the middle name/initial doesn't work. I thought about buying my a domain of my name but nothing is available there either.

So I am left to either adding numbers (really don't want to do that) or adding something else in the email like [email][e-mail][/email] or [email][e-mail][/email] lol

Anyone got ideas? What does everybody using for their "professional email" common name or rare...I'd like to know.

[Sarge46]

I go first.lastnumbers@gmail. Numbers are fine, just don't go overboard.

[wlzshroom]

if your normal internet alias is fairly obscure but not totally dumb you could probably use that as an email
that's the route that i went (not this name, i used a different name for this one)