The longest personal name is 747 characters long, and it belonged to Hubert Blaine Wolfe­schlegel­stein­hausen­berger­dorff Sr, who passed away aged 83 on 24 October 1997, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Although he went by Hubert, that was actually the eighth name in the list. He had a name for each letter of the alphabet, followed by a 597-character surname.