Guinness World Records gave him the title of world’s longest name, with his full name being 2,253 unique words Watkins, who worked at a library at the time, picked many of his unique middle names out ...

(CNN) - A 60-year-old man from New Zealand is the holder of the “world’s longest name.” For everyday use, he goes by Laurence Watkins. However, his full name has more than 2,200 words and takes about ...

(CNN) — For most people, introductions are a fleeting formality, an exchange of names accomplished in seconds. However, for Laurence Watkins, this simple task becomes an extraordinary feat of ...

World record holder: Man sues government, has longest name in the world This 60-year-old has the longest name in the world at 2,253 words total.

One man made a big name for himself 35 years ago. In 1990, Laurence Gregory Watkins of Auckland, New Zealand, changed his legal name by adding more than 2,000 middle names. Two years later, Guinness ...