Like if your name is John B Jones III. What do you call the III - officially speaking? We came up with numeric suffix which sounds official but we basicaly just made it up.
2007-09-17 04:31:12 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Serial number.
2007-09-17 04:35:51 · answer #1 · answered by Dharma Nature 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The word suffix indicates that it is an ending to a word and since the Roman numeral is not added to a word, suffix is inaccurate. I would be more inclined to name it a Lineage numeral since it is used to indicate a succession in persons of a single family.
2007-09-17 04:52:10 · answer #2 · answered by SexRexRx 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it starts with the third as the second is a junior. it simply means that that many people in the same bloodline have had the same name. no official name for it just john b. jones, the third,forth and so on.
2007-09-17 04:40:04 · answer #3 · answered by racer 51 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it's just called the suffix.
2007-09-17 04:42:33 · answer #4 · answered by mable3691214 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just filled out dependent information for my insurance company and they referred to that as "numeric birth order".
2007-09-17 04:41:59 · answer #5 · answered by peggy m 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋