Which city has had the most name changes?
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Beijing 北京 has 20 Namechanges on 11 different names (or 21/12 if one takes the change from Peking to Beijing, which is only a change in the Latin Script).
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Guinness (Book of) World Records lists indeed the Kazakh capital as the capital city with most name changes.
My guess is that lists like Countries And Cities That Have Changed Their Names are sought after, and that somehow some way 'curated lists' like Wikipedia: List of city name changes are a starting point to look at record holders.
An excerpt from Wikipedia would certainly hold many Eastern European cities, Polish, Ukrainian, and the likes of these:
9 Beroe → Vereya (Beroya) → Ulpia Augusta Trajana → Irinopolis → Boruy → Vereya → Eski Zağra → Zheleznik → Stara Zagora
9 Nowy Włodzisław → Junowłodzisław → Inowłodzisław → Inowłocław → Inowrocław → Hohensalza → Inowrocław → Hohensalza → Inowrocław
8 Lutsk → Luchesk (1427) → Łuck (1569) → Lutsk (1795) → Mikhailogorod (1850) → Luck (1915) → Łuck (1919) → Lutsk (1939)
8 Michuhol → Soseong-hyeon → Gyeongwon-bu → Inch'ŏn (1413) → Jinsen† (1910) → Chemulpo (1945)→ Inch'ŏn (1945) → Incheon
7 Euesperides → Berenice → Hesperides → Barneeq → Marsa ibn Ghazi → Bani Ghazi → Benghazi
7 Fenghao (豐鎬) → Chang'an (長安) or Xijing (西京) → Daxing (大興) → Fengyuan (奉元) → Anxi (安西) → Jingzhao (京兆) → Xi'an (西安)
6 Varadinum (Latin) → (Nagy)várad (Magyar) → Varat (Turkish) → Großwardein (German) → Oradea Mare (Romanian) → (1925 shortening) Oradea
6 Port Numbay → Hollandia → Kota Baru → Sukarnapura → Djajapura → Jayapura
6 Wanggeom-seong → Pyongyang → Seogyeong → Pyongyang → Heijō† → Pyongyang
5 Karakol → Przhevalsk (1889) → Karakol (1921) → Przhevalsk (1939) → Karakol (1991)
5 Lignica → Fürstenwald → Beroldestadt → Bernstadt → Bierutów
5 Bydgoszcz → Bromberg → Bydgoszcz2 → Bromberg → Bydgoszcz
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