Alexander Ek, a 25-year-old man from Haninge near Stockholm, claims he has the longest name in Sweden, after changing it to the 63 word nomenclature:
Kim-Jong Sexy Glorious Beast Divine Dick Father Lovely Iron Man Even Unique Poh Un Winn Charlie Ghora Khaos Mehan Hansa Kimmy Humbero Uno Master Over Dance Shake Bouti Bepop Rocksteady Shredder Kung Ulf Road House Gilgamesh Flap Guy Theo Arse Hole Im Yoda Funky Boy Slam Duck Chuck Jorma Jukka Pekka Ryan Super Air Ooy Rusell Salvador Alfons Molgan Akta Papa Long Nameh Ek.
Currently known as “Papah Long Nameh,” Ek has changed his name six times since he was eighteen, each time adding a selection of carefully chosen titles.
In Sweden a person can change their name once for free, after that each change costs $149.
Ek told Nyheter24:
“My parents were a little confused the first time a letter came addressed to Usama-Bin Ek instead of Alexander.
“I don’t always get my mail and sometimes the electricity bill is late, but that’s part of the charm.”
Last year, Ek was one of dozens of Swedes who changed their name to “Klaus-Heidi” in the hope of winning a new life in Berlin. He didn’t win, and no longer counts Klaus-Heidi Bratwursten amongst his names.
“It would be wonderful to win a trip to North Korea now, but then I probably wouldn’t have come back,” he joked.
Ek may hold the Swedish record for longest name but not the world record
That belongs to 41-year-old woman from Hartlepool, England, who changed her name in 2012 to:
Red - Wacky League - Antlez - Broke the Stereo – Neon Tide - Bring Back Honesty – Coalition – Feedback – Hand of Aces – Keep Going Captain – Let’s Pretend – Lost State of Dance – Paper Taxis – Lunar Road - Up! Down! Strange! – All and I – Neon Sheep – Eve Hornby - Faye Bradley – AJ Wilde – Michael Rice – Dion Watts – Matthew Appleyard – John Ashurst – Lauren Swales – Zoe Angus – Jaspreet Singh – Emma Matthews – Nicola Brown – Leanne Pickering – Victoria Davies – Rachel Burnside – Gil Parker – Freya Watson - Alisha Watts – James Pearson - Jacob Sotheran-Darley - Beth Lowery – Jasmine Hewitt – Chloe Gibson - Molly Farquhar - Lewis Murphy – Abbie Coulson – Nick Davies - Harvey Parker - Kyran Williamson - Michael Anderson - Bethany Murray - Sophie Hamilton - Amy Wilkins - Emma Simpson - Liam Wales - Jacob Bartram - Alex Hooks - Rebecca Miller - Caitlin Miller - Sean McCloskey - Dominic Parker - Abbey Sharpe – Elena Larkin – Rebecca Simpson - Nick Dixon – Abbie Farrelly – Liam Grieves – Casey Smith – Liam Downing – Ben Wignall – Elizabeth Hann - Danielle Walker - Lauren Glen - James Johnson – Ben Ervine - Kate Burton - James Hudson - Daniel Mayes - Matthew Kitching – Josh Bennett – Evolution – Dreams.
Dawn McManus changed her name after she set up a children’s charity Red Dreams, following the sad death of her son Kyle. Dawn agreed to change her name by Deed Poll to honor all those the charity had helped since 2008—a total of 225 words, 1,215 characters.
Previously a man from Edinburgh, Scotland, Barnaby Usansky, formerly known as Nicholas Usansky, held the record after having his birth name changed by Deed Poll in 2011 to the 29 word title:
Barnaby Marmaduke Aloysius Benjy Cobweb Dartagnan Egbert Felix Gaspar Humbert Ignatius Jayden Kasper Leroy Maximilian Neddy Obiajulu Pepin Quilliam Rosencrantz Sexton Teddy Upwood Vivatma Wayland Xylon Yardley Zachary Usansky.
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