# People in cultures which commonly have very long names **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 29, 2021, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-in-cultures-which-commonly-have-very-long-names/953466 "2021-10-29T13:59:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 12
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Native Americans often have native names, but are now known by their English translations of those names. These are often longish names, often entire multi-word phrases that may be written with or without spaces separating the words. There were several people named Everybodytalksabout who were in the news for some unsavory reasons (trouble with the law). We even had some threads here remarking on the name. > [@Everybodytalksabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybodytalksabout/660521): > > The subject of this [article](http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Charge-Men-raped-woman-with-vodka-bottle-at-4480564.php)(rape) obviously isn’t funny, but one of the rapists’ name is Nathan Everybodytalksabout. And it’s not pertinent to the story, so they have no reason to mention how WTF it is, even though obviously everyone reading it is going to be thinking that. You wouldn’t even have to know this guy is a rapist to know he’s an asshole. The people in Thailand must find that a difficult name. [Here is a page listing names in a Blackfoot genealogy](http://blackfeetgenealogy.com/index3.htm). The names here are just surnames, and many of them are lengthy multi-word phrases. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-in-cultures-which-commonly-have-very-long-names/953466)._