This man could tell you his name, but it’d take roughly 20 minutes

Laurence Watkins, a retired security guard from Auckland, New Zealand, holds his six-page birth certificate which lists all of his 2,253 names. He is the official record holder for "longest personal name in the world," as confirmed by Guinness World Records. (Laurence Watkins)

For most people, introductions are a fleeting formality, an exchange of names accomplished in seconds.

However, for Laurence Watkins, this simple task becomes an extraordinary feat of endurance.

To recite his full name, all 2,253 words, demands 20 minutes.

This was demonstrated at his first wedding in 1991, when the marriage celebrant pre-recorded the exhaustive list.

As guests wandered the venue, champagne in hand, the recording played until, at last, the moment arrived for Watkins to say, “I do.”

The 60-year