Your official e-mail address is tied to your UCSD identity and can only change because of a legal name change or a valid business need.

How UCSD assigns e-mail names

UCSD automatically creates your e-mail address using your name (as listed with Human Resources) and the following campus naming conventions. If the first option isn't available, the next option is used:

1. First initial and last name: gbluefin
2. First initial, middle initial, and last name: gtbluefin
3. First initial, number, and last name: g2bluefin
4. First initial, middle initial, last initial, and 3-digit number: gtb007

Changing your official UCSD e-mail address

• If your name legally changes or needs to be corrected:
1. Contact your HR representative or business officer to change your name in all systems.
2. Once HR updates your name, contact the Messaging Team to request the change to your official e-mail address. The Messaging Team maintains your original e-mail address as an alias, ensuring that you continue to receive mail sent to the old address.

• If you have a valid business need:
  • Ask your department director or business officer to contact the Messaging Team. The request should explain the business need for the change.

Creating or changing an e-mail alias

You can request a secondary e-mail alias to use in conjunction with your official/ primary UCSD address.

• To create or change an e-mail alias, send a request to the Messaging Team.
• Include your official UCSD e-mail address and the desired e-mail alias.

Note: Secondary e-mail aliases are assigned only if available and aren't published in the online or printed UCSD directories.

• E-mail alias example:
  • Your official UCSD e-mail address is g1bluefin@ucsd.edu, but people often mistake the 1 for an L. You request a secondary e-mail alias of firstname@ucsd.edu.

Questions? Contact the Messaging Team.