Jonath-elem-rechokim is the name of a song, not a person. That's still a name, I guess, though we might more correctly call it a title. It means something like, "The Silent Dove from Far Away."
I was thinking of the name Pharoah gave Joseph, the one with the amazing technicolor coat, but that's only 15 letters long, since it wouldn't be fair to count the 5 hyphens, would it? Zaph-nath-pa-a-ne-ah.
If you were to hyphenate all that. Then Maher-Shalal-(C)Hash-Baz is much longer than it seems to be. The name Pharaoh gave Joseph is comparitively short, only two words, Tzophnat-Pa'neäch (that's a diereses over the a, not an umlaut). Which, including the hyphen and the apostrophe, is 17 characters long.
In the Hebrew, Maher-Shalal-Chash-Baz is just ten letters long (without the hyphens), tied with N'vuchadretzor (another spelling of Nebuchadnezzar). The longest place name is "Even Bohan Ben R'uven" at 13 letters (in Hebrew).
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