Rasmus-Nikolaj, with a hyphen, counts as one name right?
One of my teachers’ son is named such. Was to be named Ib but they found that too short, and then couldn’t agree on their favorite alternatives so they chose both. With a hyphen.
Osakmakwabane, he went by Osas
Miles.
A girl I knew was called, and I shit you not: Estradivarius. 5 syllables. Yes, the same name as the clothing store which itself named after the string instrument.
Estradivarius. 5 syllables.
E-strad-i-var-i-us . 6, right?
Oh, I’m not sure. In Spanish it’s es-tra-di-va-rius.
Okay, good to hear someone else say this about Spanish. Like how “diez” is much closer to 1 syllable than 2
Native Hawaiian names can be pretty long.
Ken. I don’t get out much.
I work with a lot of folks in India with super long names and they generally have a shorter version everyone calls them by.
I think the longest for someone I’ve met is “Vishnuvardhan” but everyone calls him Vish.
Then the problem is having a dozen Vish’s.
Nothing, Vishnu with you?
Gesundheit!
I’ve never met him but Mr Osas would have to be a contender
Uvuvwevwevwe Onyetenyevwe Ugwemuhwem Osas
Trout Fishing in America, followed by Dependable Hickory.
Like “troutfishinginamerica”?
Yeah, named for a novella by Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America (1967). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trout_Fishing_in_America
No it isn’t.
Duck. I dont how to phrase this question
“Clinicallydepressedpoochie” is in the running.
Met a Christopherrobinhood once.
Abdullah
In Spain, four syllable names aren’t rare. Antonio or Ignacio are quite common. Isidoro and Wenceslao, are more rare but I’ve met some.
Then there are composite names that might seem two names but are considered a single one, like José María or Francisco Javier.
I was thinking of those composite names too, like Juan Miguel Archangel (John Michael Archangel) but the person having such a name would just choose at most two and would introduce themselves as John, or Michael, or Miguel.
Unless it rolls well out of the tongue like José Luís, almost all people with composite names go by one of the components or a specific short for that composite name.
For example: José María get shortened to Chema, or María Teresa turns into Maite.
Not the longest, but I once worked with a Thai lady named Soda Pop. She swore it was her real name, it was on all her work documents and everything.
Thai people tend to have names that mean things like that.
Common ones I’ve seen:
Pang = bread Namsom = orange juice Namphueng = honey (bee water) Namfon = rain water Somporn = auspicious orange Somwan = sweet orange
I once knew a Thai woman named Siri Alexa. Seriously, she is about 65 and is quite tired of the jokes.
