# What is the highest number of births a single woman has given?

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**Created:** [November 11, 2005, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-highest-number-of-births-a-single-woman-has-given/330502 "2005-11-11T01:00:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![MessyPaint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@MessyPaint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MessyPaint)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-highest-number-of-births-a-single-woman-has-given/330502/1 "2005-11-11T01:00:23Z")

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I guess she isnt really single 😉 - lucky guy

But I’m curious to know what woman gave the most amount of births. I tried searching. Maybe someone has a guiness book laying around?

If possible, I’d love all around information on the family like the children’s names and where they lived, their nationality etc.

🆒

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**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-highest-number-of-births-a-single-woman-has-given/330502/2 "2005-11-11T01:07:40Z")

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You can verify this yourself. I’m too lazy to check my Guinness.

[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1271793.cms](http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1271793.cms)

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**Author:** ![MessyPaint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@MessyPaint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MessyPaint)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-highest-number-of-births-a-single-woman-has-given/330502/3 "2005-11-11T01:20:41Z")

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thank you pappy 🙂

{quote from above link}

The world record for having the most number of children officially recorded is 69 by the first of two wives of Feodor Vassilyev (1707-1782), a peasant from Shuya, 150 miles east of Moscow. In 27 confinements, she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets. The children were born between 1725-1765.

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**Author:** ![butler1850](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@butler1850](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butler1850)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-highest-number-of-births-a-single-woman-has-given/330502/4 "2005-11-11T14:27:00Z")

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Oh dear lord…

I’d have chopped my stuff clean off after the first 10!

that poor woman certainly had some productive ovaries! Not a singe birth among the lot. I wonder how many survived for any given period? (1 yr, 3 yr, 10 yr, adulthood) Certainly would have been an interesting study from a genetics point of view.

How on earth would you have thought up names for that many???