• @cattywampas@lemm.ee
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    1829 days ago

    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.

    • Dzso
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      229 days ago

      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

    • @meyotch@slrpnk.net
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      228 days ago

      I once knew a Thai woman named Siri Alexa. Seriously, she is about 65 and is quite tired of the jokes.

  • Lemminary
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    929 days ago

    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.

  • @quediuspayu@lemmy.world
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    829 days ago

    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.

    • megane-kun
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      129 days ago

      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.

      • @quediuspayu@lemmy.world
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        28 days ago

        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.

  • @jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    629 days ago

    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.

  • hmmm… evangeline for a girl, i think it’s like evangeline rose for the full first name.

    a rare name for guys is like claudualdo. usually guy names are shorter. benjamin or methuselah are more common.

  • @PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world
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    328 days ago

    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.