I agree with others here that you shouldn't autogenerate usernames from names if you can help it. FYI, we have auto-generated usernames in the university computer lab of the form js429 where "js" is the initials of the person always coerced to [a-z]{2}, and "429" is a three-digit number somehow generated from the name and other user data.1 There are 14200 such usernames. (The most common initials are sa(280), ka(244), ba(206), sg(191), kg(180), kz(149), bg(140).)

In reply to Re: Autogenerating usernames by ambrus
in thread Autogenerating usernames by EvanCarroll

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