ABSTRACT

If Jorian Jenks had done nothing of note in his life, his extraordinarily rare Christian name would still have distinguished him. He commented that he was

called Josiah, Julian, Joriah, and even Jeremiah, in fact the choice of misspellings and mispronunciations is almost endless. Worst of all is the incredulous look which people give you when you assure them it is your real name and not an alias.1