As Rhoshandiatellyneshiaunneveshenk Koyaanisquatsiuth isn't the catchiest of names for day-to-day use, her friends and family just call her Jamie. Speaking to Oprah back in 1997 when Jamie was 12, her mum explained her decision to give her such a long name.
On September 12, 1984, a girl was born who also had the longest name ever registered. Rhoshandiatellyneshiaunneveshenk Koyaanisquatsiuth Williams was the name she was given by her parents. But.
When their baby girl was born on September 12, 1984, Sandra and her partner formally submitted her name as Rhoshandiatellyneshiaunneveshenk Koyaanisquatsiuth Williams on her birth certificate.
Initially, the girl's parents wrote Rhoshandiatellyneshiaunneveshenk Koyaanisquatsiuth Williams on her birth certificate. Now, that's long, right? Her parents did not think so. So, they filed an amendment to the name and changed it to 1,019 letters.
The longest personal name is 747 characters long, and belongs to Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. (b. 4 August 1914, Germany) who passed away on 24 October 1997, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA, as verified on 1 January 2021.
LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH, WALES. This village on the Ynys Môn island off the north-west coast of Wales has 58 letters. It is the place with the second-longest name in the world. The original name of the village was Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll.
Long is a common last name found among Overseas Chinese communities around the world. In fact, "Long" is the transliteration of several different Chinese surnames. Its meaning varies depending on how it is spelled in Chinese, and which dialect it is pronounced in.
The longest officially recognized place name in an English-speaking country is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu (85 letters), which is a hill in New Zealand. The name is in the Māori language.
The following table shows the five most frequent given names for male and female babies born in each year 1923-2022. Over the last 100 years, the male name Michael has held the top spot most often (44 times), while the female name Mary has been ranked number one 33 times over those years.
"Maher-shalal-hash-baz" (/ˌmeɪhər ʃælæl ˈhæʃ bɑːz/; Hebrew: מַהֵר שָׁלָל חָשׁ בַּז, Mahēr šālāl ḥāš baz – "Hurry to the spoils!" or "He has made haste to the plunder!") was the second prophetic name mentioned in Isaiah chapter 8–9.
Diana Armstrong, the lady whose fingernails are 1,306.58 cm (42 ft 10.4 in) in length, has spoken up about her life and the challenges she endures, revealing that she hasn't gone to a salon in 22 years.
What celebrity has the longest name? That would be the late Pablo Picasso, whose full name is Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.
While the vast majority of Han Chinese names consist of two or three characters, there are some Han Chinese with longer names, up to 15 characters. In addition, transliteration of ethnic languages into Chinese characters often results in long names.
Long is the 86th most popular surname in the United States with origins in English, Irish, and Chinese. The most common alternate surname spellings include Longe, Lang, Delong, and Laing.
Place with the Longest Single Word in the World
The place with the longest single word is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu. At 85 letters, this Māori name for a hill in New Zealand is often truncated to Taumata.
Mamungkukumpurangkuntjunya. Mamungkukumpurangkuntjunya Hill is officially the longest place name in Australia. Located in the Indigenous Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands in the north of the state of South Australia, the name is derived from 'where the devil urinates' in regional Pitjantjatjara language.
But if you visit the North Island of New Zealand, there's one word that no local will give you a hard time about mispronouncing. In fact, they often shorten it themselves. Ready? It's Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu.
Once again, the most popular names for babies born in the United States are Liam and Olivia—Liam has topped the list for six years in a row, and Olivia has been the top choice for new parents for four years.
The shortest full name belongs to a man in China named “Özümüy” which is only 4 letters long.
Maximum length of a name
There is no legal limit on the length of your name, but we impose a limit of 300 characters (including spaces) for your full name.