[ANSTHRLD] How many name elements become too many?

[Mike C. Baker]

> I have a client whose name was forwarded to Laurel as <Genna 
> Concetta di
> Chiaramonte>. She is thinking about withdrawing the name 
> submission, and
> resubmitting it as <Genovefa Genna Concetta di Chiaramonte>. 
> My concern is that there may be too many elements to the 
> name. Am I right to be concerned in this?
> 
> I seem to recall reading somewhere that period Italian names 
> did not normally have that many elements to it, but wanted to 
> make certain before saying 'yes' or 'no'.
> 
> Luciana
> 
> --
> "If it's difficult we do it immediately.  If it's impossible 
> it takes a little longer.......  Miracles by appointment only"

Yeppers, the possible re-sub is fair reject bait, onomastically, without
some darn good documentation of historical persons with three given
names in the target culture(s).  Genna etc. appears Italian to my eye,
and I *believe* we've had at least one recent return from Pelican [or
are just about to...] for exactly this kind of three-given-names issue
with an Italian, or possibly mixed Franco-Italian, name.

The number of historical citations (pre-1600CE) for more than two given
names plus surname(s) / byname(s) / locatives is miniscule in every
culture that I am aware of to any depth.  The possible exceptions are
for those cultures that began inserting religious namings into the lot,
and that is *generally* a post-1600 practice (yes, there are exceptions
-- frex, in Japanese culture, although in that case it was generally
more of a "retirement" name which replaced the earlier name; see
Solveig's "pamphlet" for details).

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