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Officially, among Japanese names there are 291,129 different Japanese surnames (姓, sei), [1] as determined by their kanji, although many of these are pronounced and romanized similarly. Conversely, some surnames written the same in kanji may also be pronounced differently. [2]
Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. (a.k.a. Hubert Wolfstern, [ 3] Hubert B. Wolfe + 666 Sr., [ 4] Hubert Blaine Wolfe+585 Sr., [ 5] and Hubert Blaine Wolfe+590 Sr., [ 6] among others, 4 August 1914 – 24 October 1997) was a German-born American typesetter who held the record for the longest personal name ever used.
Tomiko Itooka (born 23 May 1908) of Japan is the world's oldest living person whose age has been validated. [ 2] John Tinniswood (born 26 August 1912) of the United Kingdom is the world's oldest living man whose age has been validated. [ 2]
Wattenberg says one option for old man names is to choose one that's tied to a historical figure, such as Woodrow, after former President Woodrow Wilson, who served from 1913 to 1921. Or research ...
These old-fashioned boy names are due to come back around in a big way. According to Laura Wattenberg, creator of Namerology , historically, boys names didn’t come in and out of fashion in the ...
The oldest person ever whose age has been independently verified is Jeanne Calment (1875–1997) of France, who lived to the age of 122 years and 164 days. [ b] The oldest verified man ever is Jiroemon Kimura (1897–2013) of Japan, who lived to the age of 116 years and 54 days. The oldest known living person is Tomiko Itooka of Japan, aged 116 ...
Can you identify an Irish man or woman by last name only? If their surname begins with O’, Mc’ or Fitz-, that's a pretty good clue. Those all mean “son of” according to Laura Wattenberg ...
Chinese names also form the basis for many common Cambodian, Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese surnames and to an extent, Filipino surnames in both translation and transliteration into those languages. The conception of China as consisting of the "old 100 families" (Chinese: 老百姓; pinyin: Lǎo Bǎi Xìng; lit.