> nobody's surname needs 128 bytes I believe that's #6 falsehoods programmers believe about names (with examples) https://shinesolutions.com/2018/01/08/falseh

> nobody's surname needs 128 bytes I believe that's #6 falsehoods programmers believe about names (with examples) https://shinesolutions.com/2018/01/08/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names-with-examples/ https://shinesolutions.com/2018/01/08/falsehoods-programmers... Ingoring multi byte characters there are still plenty of long names https://www.ancestry.com/c/ancestry-blog/discovering-the-history-of-long-last-names https://www.ancestry.com/c/ancestry-blog/discovering-the-his... If you're going to try for a "reasonable" max name length it would probably need to be at least 4kb.