When a family name is passed down (John Doe ll, John Doe lll) does the individual always keep the same number?

Question

For example, if I am one of 3 living John Does in my family, John Doe lll, and John Doe II dies, do I remain John Doe lll? Or do I move up to John Doe ll?

Answer 1

No, you keep the number even after another John Doe's death. I.e., everyone keeps their name after death. It doesn't change what the remaining people are.

Answer 2

Refering to family titles such as Senior, Junior, the Third, the Forth, you always keep your number title even when someone dies. All this does is show which generation of that particlular name in sucession you are. Just because grandpa and dad died does not mean you get to change you "number title."
If you had a son and gave him the name John C Doe the 6th, he will be the 6th even though all his grandfathers with the same name have passed away.

Answer 3

You are always John Doe the third or John Doe III, you son would be the 4th and so on. Another interesting trick to preserve family names....give the mother's maiden name as a middle name for a son or daughter. For example, your wife's maiden name was Smythe....your last name was Jones ...you would then name your son or daughter....John/ Jayne Smythe Jones. Many people do that now anyway, they just use a hyphen between the surnames. But this has been done for years. Good luck, JD3

Answer 4

When a name is passed down, the number increases. The whole point of the number is to differentiate individual family members with the same name, so if the number was passed down you wouldn't tell the diff btwn the dad, grandad and son if you looked at their paperwork. The numbers help, so after ohn Doe III is John Doe IV

Answer 5

You would always keep the same number.
An easy way to think about this is to consider the line of British royalty.
When Edward I died, his son, Edward II didn't change his numerical designation, he remained Edward II.
And think of all the Henrys there were! None of them moved up to a lower number when their predecessor died.

Answer 6

My Dad was John Doe, Sr

His son - JD II

His son (my Dads grandson) is JD III

My Father passed 2 years ago - the names stay the same

When JD III has a son the son will be JD IV

Answer 7

actually, no. you always move up the number. it doesn't matter if john doe II dies. the numbering is for succession purposes so there's no confusion between which is living and which is passed.

Answer 8

You keep the same number as you are not becoming your own parent or grandparent unless through some form of marriage or warping of time travel. The next number depends upon continuation of tradition and family health and size of family.

Answer 9

You remain the same number, one of my friends grandparents was the first, and my friend the third. When his grandpa died he remained the third

Answer 10

Actually, you should be taking the square root of your suffix, adding your age and dividing by your IQ.

If you get a whole number, don't have children.