Message: "Adding a middle name to a III or IV?"

Adding a middle name to a III or IV?

by Jen (Nadismom)

5/31/2004, 12:56 AM

I've been trying to find the correct answer to this question for my entire pregnancy....

Can you add a middle name to your son's name and still have him be a III? For instance, my father-in-laws name is David with no middle name... as well as my husband's... so he is a Jr. If we were to give our unborn son a middle name (ex. David James) would he be a third?

Thanks for any info..

Jen

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- Devonelisa +1

5/31/2004, 8:41 AM

Technically, no, but given the human instinct for 'blast the rules' it's been commonly done through history. In my family we have a slew of Isaac's, Sr, Jr, and III in the 1700's and 1800's, each with a different mn - Isaac James, Isaac John, back to Isaac James.

So tell the relatives 'yes' you can, give your boy a mn and let them tack III on the end. Strict name etiquette pedants might argue that by adding a mn you altered it out of III mode but honestly, how many of them do you run into in your normal life ;o)

Devon

- Jen (Nadismom)

5/31/2004, 2:12 PM

Thanks so much for the response and finally giving me an answer to our long-debated question!!!!!! Thats pretty much what we thought.

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