The Greatest Name

A baby girl was given a name with more than 1,000 letters! It got the child into Guinness World Records. Does a greater name than this one exist?

What’s in a name?

Quite a bit actually, if you have a name like a 6-year-old girl who is known as Jameshawnnel or Jamie for short.

Her name has more than 1,000 letters in it, including the titles of movies, cars, countries and cities. It is an amalgamation of 100 shorter first names. It has 1,023 letters and two apostrophes. Her middle name has only 36 letters. Jamie’s name also includes the names of many of her relatives and words such as “friend” and “love.”

Registering her name was not easy for the clerks in the registrar’s office in Houston, Texas. They had to use seven other birth certificates and glue and staples just to register her name. It was such a laborious process that the rules were changed prohibiting names that wouldn’t fit in “two typewritten lines in the 5 1/8 inch space on the official birth certificate.” (See Animating Illustrations for Jamie’s full name.)

Jamie’s mother explained that she...