Overview

• Guinness World Records revised Watkins’ tally this week from 2,310 to 2,253 after a change in record guidelines.
• His application to add more than 2,000 middle names was accepted by a district court but rejected by the Registrar-General before the High Court ruled in his favor.
• New Zealand subsequently prohibited official titles as names and imposed stricter naming rules, making similar changes difficult to achieve there.
• His full legal name overflowed standard ID formats, leading to six extra pages on his passport and another six on his revised birth certificate.
• He assembled the names from books and suggestions while working at a library, favors the entry “AZ2000,” and says a full recitation takes about 20 minutes.