The problem to solve:
create a password list containing patterns that matched name123

How to solve:

1. www[.]packetstormsecurity[.]com/Crackers/wordlists/ provided many good starting points for name-based dictionaries.
2. A few of these were thrown together into a big file (which was of course run through sort and uniq).
3. john.conf was modified to read:
   

   [List.Rules:Wordlist]
   $1$2$3

   When you do this, you need to change the existing [List.Rules:Wordlist] line to read something else like [List.Rules:OLDWordlist].
   The $ tells john to append the character that follows such that

   • $1 will produce name1
   • $1$2 will produce name12
   • $1$2$3 will produce name123
4. Then just run john with the --wordlist and --rules parameters on your password file like so:
   

   $ ./john --session=htaccess123 --wordlist=dictionaries/all_words \ 
   --rules htaccess_from_somewhere

   or just to write a post-rules dictionary (named new_wordlist123) file use:

   $ ./john --session=htaccess123 --wordlist=dictionaries/all_words \
   --rules --stdout > new_wordlist123

...yes a few lines of a bash/PERL/Ruby/whatever script can append things to each line in a file too but hey try something new today..