Sage-Tips

Can the 3rd skip a generation?

If you choose to use III for your son non-traditionally, you’ll have to be resigned to people assuming his father’s name is the same as his, and people potentially acting disgruntled that a generation was skipped. If you’re willing to accept these consequences, there is no Suffix Police who will keep you from using it.

What is suffix III mean?

When a man is named after his father who is a “Jr.,” he is called “the third,” once written with either the numeric 3rd or the Roman numeral III, but now the latter is used almost exclusively. A man named after his grandfather, uncle, or cousin uses the suffix II, “the second.”

How do you write III after a name?

You Can Write III or 3rd If someone is referred to as “the third,” you can use either the Roman numeral (III) or the Arabic numeral (3rd) after the name. When speaking a name, you say “the third,” but when writing a name, you don’t include the word the before the numeral. John Kennedy Jr.

Do you have to have the same middle name to be a third?

No. The suffixes “Sr”, “Jr”, “II”, “III”, etc are only used when you have people with EXACTLY the same name. The purpose is to distinguish one relative from another. If you have a different middle name, then that is how you are distinguished.

Where do you put the third when last name is first?

When used in this context, the abbreviation is capitalized and a period follows it. If the name is written last name first, it should follow this pattern: Last Name, First Name Middle Initial., Suffix. For example, “Williams, Mark A., III.”

How do you write 3 after a name?

What does IV mean after a name?

IV is the abbreviation for “intravenous.” The word “intravenous” is quite properly an adjective. In this guise, it entered the English language around 1849. It means, according to Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, “situated, performed, or occurring within or entering by way of a vein.”

Where do you put your name extension?

In a full name listing, the suffix follows the last name because the person is primarily known by is given name and surname, the suffix being a secondary piece of information. When listing last name first, the given name follows the surname because that is how we sort: all the Does, then the Johns, and finally the Jr.

Do you put a comma after III in a name?

Traditionally, it would be John Smith, Jr., and John Smith III. But beginning with the fourteenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style (1993), the recommendation is to use no commas in either case (see paragraph 6.43 of the seventeenth edition):