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What's your middle initial? Is J + Middle initial + smith @ gmail available? That's how my gmail address is formatted. or maybe john[MI]smith@gmail ?
All permutations of my name with middle initial are also taken.
Also, my name isn't actually John Smith.
There are about three million people with the name Smith in the US. Figure another million or so in other English-speaking countries, a quarter of which have Gmail accounts (might be an underestimation; there are more than 400 million Gmail users), and you're left with a million Smiths using Gmail. How many of them tried that username format? I have no idea, but since there are only 676 possible strings of two Roman letters, it'd have to be less than one in a thousand and change. (Gmail addresses are not case sensitive.) Not holding my breath, in other words.
You might have better luck playing with . breaks between words. I've got the Gmail account firstname.lastname@gmail.com, although I'm blessed with an uncommon surname.
Gmail actually ignores the dots. first.name.last.name@gmail.com and firstnamelastname@gmail.com are treated the same.