What is the longest English surname?

The longest single English surname is Featherstonehaugh (17 letters), variously pronounced Featherstonehaw or Festonhaw or Fessonhay or Freestonhugh or Feerstonhaw or Fanshaw.
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What is the longest American surname?

A son, Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Jr., was born in Philadelphia in 1952, and was able to pronounce his surname by age three. Family letterhead used the form "Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff".
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What is the longest surname in the world?

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.
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What is the longest English first name?

Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
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What are the most British last names?

Appendix:English surnames (England and Wales)
  • Smith 652,563.
  • Jones 538,874.
  • Williams 380,379.
  • Taylor 306,296.
  • Brown 291,872.
  • Davies 279,647.
  • Evans 222,580.
  • Thomas 202,773.
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What are rare English last names?

British surnames on the brink - with under 20 bearers
  • Sallow (English) ...
  • Fernsby (English) ...
  • Villin or Villan (English) ...
  • Miracle (Welsh) ...
  • Dankworth (English) ...
  • Relish (English) ...
  • MacQuoid (Scottish) ...
  • Loughty (Scottish)
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What is the most famous English surname?

Smith – the most popular surname in the UK. The most common surname in Scotland and the UK as a whole, Smith originated from the Middle English period. 546,960 UK nationals have it. It started out as an occupational name for someone who worked with metal, such as a Blacksmith.
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What is the 2 longest name in the world?

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.
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What is the longest British name?

Well, exactly 58 letters, if the name happens to be Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, the longest place name in the United Kingdom and one of the longest village names in the world.
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What is the longer version of Evan?

Evan is also the shortened version of the Greek names "Evangelos" (meaning "good messenger") and "Evander" (meaning "good man").
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What is the #1 last name?

The most common surname in the United States is Smith. Actually, the most common surname in just about every English-speaking country is Smith.
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What last names no longer exist?

There is a list of names that are extinct. It includes Bread, Spinster, Chips, Rummage, Pussett, Temples, Wellbelove, Hatman and Bytheseashore. Know anyone with those names – hardly. Other names with just a few individuals include Fernsby, Rushlands, Berrycloth, Dankworth, Birdwhistle, Relish and Tumbler.
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What is the shortest name ever?

What's the shortest name? "E" or "E" (鄂) is a common Chinese surname, and one found in the classic book The Hundred Family Surnames from the early Song Dynasty.
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What is America's oldest name?

Kushim is the earliest known example of a named person in writing. The name "Kushim" is found on several Uruk period (c. 3400–3000 BCE) clay tablets used to record transactions of barley.
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What is the rarest last name in the US?

10 Rarest Last Names in the United States
  • Duckstein.
  • Stawarski.
  • Ragsdill.
  • Panchak.
  • Mosheyev.
  • Guillebeaux.
  • Banasiewicz.
  • Atonal.
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What is the biggest family last name?

More than 106 million people have the surname Wang, a Mandarin term for prince or king. It's not too surprising that the top surname is Chinese, as China has the world's largest population. As of 2022, it was home to 1.45 billion people, or 18.5 percent of the world's total.
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What is the longest first name in history?

Conversation. The longest name to appear on a birth certificate is Rhoshandiatellyneshiaunneveshenk Koyaanisquatsiuth Williams. #OTD in 1984, her father looked to extend her first name to 1,019 letters and her middle name to 36 letters.
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What is the longest English village name?

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (Llanfair PG for short) is a small, quiet town on the island of Anglesey off the northwest coast of North Wales, famous for having the longest place name in Europe. Apart from its name, it is similar to other nearby villages.
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What is Britain's full name?

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) is an island country that sits north-west of mainland Europe.
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How many letters is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu?

With 85 letters, the longest one-word place name is that of a hill in New Zealand called Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu.
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What girl has 1,000 letters in her name?

There are 1,019 letters that spell out the girl with the longest name's name. However, her bizarre name didn't start out that long. Initially, her name was Rhoshandiatellyneshiaunneveshenk Koyaanisquatsiuth Williams.
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What aren't you allowed to name your child?

These Baby Names Are Illegal In The US
  • King.
  • Queen.
  • Jesus Christ.
  • III.
  • Santa Claus.
  • Majesty.
  • Adolf Hitler.
  • Messiah.
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What are the 7 English surnames?

There are 7 types of British surnames. Which one do you have?
  • Place name surnames. ...
  • Characteristic surnames. ...
  • Occupation surnames. ...
  • Geographical surnames. ...
  • Patronage surnames. ...
  • Patronymic or matronymic. ...
  • Estate surnames.
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What is the most royal surname?

For the most part, members of the Royal Family who are entitled to the style and dignity of HRH Prince or Princess do not need a surname, but if at any time any of them do need a surname (such as upon marriage), that surname is Mountbatten-Windsor.
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