Re: Anthroponymics (was Re: A single font can display ANY alphabet, pictograph, or rune)

In my family, the most is 3 first names (Mom) and 4 surnames (Dad).

On 10/15/05, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
> Isaac Penzev skrev:
> > Jean-François Colson wrote:
>
>
> >>Jean-François Daniel Jacques Nicolas Colson, aka JF ;-)
> >>
> >>(These are my four first names and my last name, but nearly no one knows
> >
> > my
> >
> >>last three first names.)   ;-)
> >
> >
> > Wow! I'm impressed.
> > -- Ihor Anatoliyovych Penziev, aka Yitzik ('coz my Jewish name is Yitzchak,
> > that is Isaak)
>
> How many first names can people have in different nooks of the world?
> Nowadays Swedes can have any number from one upwards, but most have
> only two. (I and my son have three each, but I never use Jung 'coz
> most people -- even Swedes -- think it's a surname.)
>
> BTW there is on record a Swede having 29 names -- one for each letter
> of the Swedish alphabet [A-ZÅÄÖ]!
>
> --
>
> /BP 8^)>
> --
> Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se
>
>          Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant!
>                                              (Tacitus)
>

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