In late 1886, a farmer from Buckingham named Jenkins tried to have his newborn son christened with 26 alphabetical given names:
Abel Benjamin Caleb Daniel Ezra Felix Gabriel Haggai Isaac Jacob Kish Levi Manoah Nehemiah Obadiah Peter Quartus Rechab Samuel Tobiah Uzziel Variah Word Xystus Yariah Zechariah
“[O]nly with the greatest difficulty could the clergyman dissuade the farmer from laying such an incubus upon it, and get him to content himself with the first and last of the names proposed.”
(The clergyman who baptized Ann Bertha Cecelia Diana Emily Fanny Gertrude Hypatia Inez Jane Kate Louise Maud Nora Ophelia Quince Rebecca Starkey Tereza Ulysis Venus Winifred Xenophon Yetty Zeus Pepper must not have minded as much.)
Of the 26 boy names proposed by farmer Jenkins, which do you like best?
Source: “River Reports.” The Anglers’ Journal 13 Nov. 1886.
In 1865 a boy in Banda (Moluccas, Netherlands East Indies, present-day Indonesia) was named Abraham Bertrand Cornelis Diederik Everhard Frederik Gerardus Hendrik Ide Jan. His surname was Lans. I wonder why they didn’t include a K name.
http://www.vernoeming.nl/a-b-c-d-e-f-g-h-i-j-lans
Definitely Gabriel. That’s always been my favorite name.