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GitHub Email Format

The widely used GitHub email format is {first}@github.com (e.g. john@github.com), which is used 23.47% of the time. Some other used GitHub email formats: {first}{last} (e.g. johnsmith@github.com), {first}.{last} (e.g. john.smith@github.com), {last} (e.g. smith@github.com), {first_initial}{last} (e.g. jsmith@github.com)

GitHub Email Formats	Example Email Formats	Adoption
{first}	john@github.com	23.47%
{first}{last}	johnsmith@github.com	19.39%
{first}.{last}	john.smith@github.com	16.33%
{last}	smith@github.com	5.1%
{first_initial}{last}	jsmith@github.com	4.08%
Other formats	—	32%

Adoption = share of company emails using each format — not a verification or accuracy score.

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