What is the longest family name?

Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. (a.k.a. Hubert Wolfstern, Hubert B.
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What is the longest last name in English?

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 generational name chain?

In 2005, the Guinness Book of World Records recognized the Confucius genealogical line as the longest family tree in history, with 86 recorded generations over 2,500 years. The Chinese philosopher (551 to 479 BCE) is thought to have 3 million descendants all over the world [source: Zhou].
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What is the longest first name?

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 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 American name?

The longest personal name is 747 characters long, and belongs to Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr.
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Who has the longest family history?

The longest family tree in the world is that of the Chinese philosopher and educator Confucius (551–479 BC), who is descended from King Tang (1675–1646 BC). The tree spans more than 80 generations from him and includes more than 2 million members.
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What is one of the oldest last names?

The oldest surname in the world is KATZ (the initials of the two words — Kohen Tsedek). Every Katz is a priest, descending in an unbroken line from Aaron the brother of Moses, 1300 B.C.
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Has there ever been a 7 generation family?

According to Guinness World Records the most generations alive in a single family has been seven.
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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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Why are Mexican last names so long?

You may wonder why people from Spanish speaking countries have such long names. This is because we have usually two family names (surnames), when not more. Following an ancient tradition, when a child is born, he/she receives the first surname from the father and the second surname is the first surname of the mother.
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What is the shortest last name?

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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Is it rare to have 5 generations?

Five generations alive at one time is definitely a "rare" occurrence, experts say.
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What does 3 times great grandfather mean?

Additional instances of "great-" can be prepended to the term, each indicating one further generation of ancestry. For large numbers of generations a number can be substituted, for example, "fourth great-grandfather", "four-greats grandfather" or "four-times-great-grandfather".
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How long is 20 generations?

In other words, our ancestors increase exponentially the further back we look. About 20 generations (about 400 years), ago we each have about a million ancestors - and after that the numbers start to get even sillier. Forty generations ago (800 years) gives us one trillion ancestors, and fifty gives one quadrillion.
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Did Jesus have a last name?

We often refer to Jesus as Jesus Christ, and some people assume that Christ is Jesus's last name. But Christ is actually a title, not a last name. So if Christ isn't a last name, what was Jesus's last name? The answer is Jesus didn't have a formal last name or surname like we do today.
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Who was the first named human?

Kushim is the earliest known example of a named person in writing. The name "Kushim" is found on several Uruk period (c.
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What is a good rare last name?

Unique Last Names
  • Barlowe.
  • Caddel.
  • Hart.
  • Katz.
  • Laurier.
  • Madden.
  • Elrod.
  • Whitlock.
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Who has the oldest bloodline in America?

A Native American man in Montana has the 'oldest' human DNA in the USA, according to news reports. The company Cellular Research Institute (CRI) Genetics, said it had traced the mitochondrial DNA of Darrell 'Dusty' Crawford back 55 generations, with an unusually high 99 percent accuracy rate.
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What is the longest traceable bloodline?

The lineage of K'ung Ch'iu or Confucius (551–479BC) can be traced back further than that of any other family. His great-great-great-great grandfather Kung Chia is known from the 8th century BC. Kung Chia has 86 lineal descendants.
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What is the oldest family tree ever?

Scientists have compiled the world's oldest family tree from human bones interred at a 5,700-year-old tomb in the Cotswolds, UK. Analysis of DNA from the tomb's occupants revealed the people buried there were from five continuous generations of one extended family.
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What is the longest Bible name?

Biblical accounts

And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.
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Who is the girl with 1000 letters in her name?

When the little girl was born on September 12, 1984, her parents wrote Rhoshandiatellyneshiaunneveshenk Koyaanisquatsiuth Williams on her birth certificate. However three weeks later they decided it simply wasn't long enough, so they filed an amendment which made it 1,019 letters long.
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What is the longest name in Africa?

The African country with the longest official name is the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, with the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria being a close second.
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How many generations in 700 years?

If you match someone on both HVR1 and HVR2, this will mean that there's a 50% chance that you share a related maternal ancestor over the last 700 years or 28 generations.
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