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Hey there! 🌸 Are you curious about whether girls have Jr. or Sr. names? Let’s dive into this interesting topic and unravel the mystery together! 💃
Do Girls Have Jr. or Sr. Names?
When it comes to the use of suffixes like Jr. or Sr. in names, it’s primarily a tradition in certain cultures and families. While it’s more commonly seen with male names, girls can also have Jr. or Sr. names. Let’s explore this further.
Girls with Jr. Names
– Girls can have Jr. names if they are named after a family member with the same name, typically a parent or grandparent.
– For example, if a girl is named Mary after her grandmother Mary, she might be referred to as Mary Jr. to distinguish between the two generations.
– However, this practice is less common for girls compared to boys.
Girls with Sr. Names
– Similarly, girls can also have Sr. names if they share the same name as an older family member.
– For instance, if a girl named Jane shares her name with her mother, who is also Jane, she could be called Jane Sr.
– Again, this occurrence is less frequent for girls but can still happen in certain families.
Wrap Up
In conclusion, while Jr. and Sr. names are more commonly associated with male individuals, girls can also have these suffixes in their names, especially in cases where they are named after a family member. 🌟 It all comes down to personal naming traditions and family customs.
I hope this sheds some light on the topic for you! Feel free to share any unique naming stories you’ve come across. Let’s keep the conversation going! 💬 #NamingTraditions #FamilyHeritage
Upvoted, genuinely interesting question.
They can have the same name, and in the modern world there is nothing stopping them from doing these things. However, these were done to continue and identify family lineages as the family name traditionally carried on with males. So it made sense to continue the line with Jr, II, III, etc. It helped maintain credibility and familiarity. Again, these days women could do it if they chose. But I’d say this is a likely reason.
Technically no but that’s not ever stopped anyone.
Please don’t name a kid after yourself. It’s such a pain in the ass. One time I moved and they forwarded my mom’s heart medicine to me. She lost her credit card two weeks before Christmas, and they cancelled mine instead. Even as a kid getting a phone call and hearing “Is Bridget there?” And the confused pause after asking “Which once?” was irksome.
Yes, girls can have “Jr.” or “Sr.” in their names, though it’s less common. Some families do choose to use these designations for daughters who share the same name as their mothers. It’s more about personal or family preference than a rule dictated by gender
It’s also less common because women traditionally changed their name at marriage, and families were aware of that, so they didn’t really bother naming their daughters after their mothers as much (or didn’t make as big a deal of it), since she’d only be a junior until she married and changed her name. And you’d definitely never get a ‘the third’ that way.
Traditions have changed, of course, so on one hand we could have more Mikala Twany Schmidt Jrs out there, but we also now put less weight into The Family Name, so more likely to see less boy jrs than more girl jrs.
I’m a female Jr! It’s a pain in the ass and I absolutely do not recommend it, massively inconvenient
Only example i can think of is Kahn Jr.
According to the podcast *Crime In Sports*, being a junior and being famous makes you practically 100% more likely to be a felon.
Not technically jrs but we do pass down middle names. My grandma, mom, me, and my daughter all have the same middle name and i know many others who at least have a middle name after their mother or grandmother.
A girl can be named after her mother, but usually doesn’t officially get the “junior” title. I have known people to do so verbally for clarity’s sake (interestingly, usually clarifying that the mom is the “senior;” it’s usually the other way around for men) but not on documents. Much more often I will hear mothers and daughters with the same name referred to as “Big” and “Little” (even if the daughter is an old woman), or the one will use a nickname (Eleanor and Ellie, maybe). Obviously men also do both of those things too.
No surnames or family names in Myanmar where I was born. Just name kids whatever you want. No changing of names upon marriage either. Your name is just your name.
Ann Putnam Jr., Mary Lacey Sr., Mary Lacey Jr., Elizabeth Johnson Jr., and Mary Bridges Jr. played various roles in the Salem Witch trials.
I thought they just went by the 1st the 2nd and so on
It’s kind of a family tradition. So it becomes Aunt, cousin and baby as the tags used. Not just one family, I think at least 3.
I knew a woman who was the sixth in her line; let’s call her Paige. Because the women all changed their names when married, the VI came before the surname: Paige VI Chalmers. Said Paige The Sixth Chalmers. We lost touch, so I never knew if she kept it going.
If you’re Khan Jr in King of the Hill, you do. Lol
In predominantly English-speaking countries, usually not. The closest thing I know to that is female monarchs being numbered like their male counterparts, like Elizabeth II or Cleopatra VII.
It used to be much more common for a child to share her name with her mother, I think partly due to the shorter life expectancies. Either because Mama would die in childbirth more often back then, or Mama would usually/commonly know, love, and/or miss a grandmother after whom she was named, and also name the new child in her honor. The Jr./Sr. suffixes have historically been used mostly or exclusively for the dudes, though there’s nothing legally stopping a female from using the suffix, at least in places where it’s usually extended. It’s an option in most of the dropboxes I’ve ever used for my mailing addresses, including government agencies like the Post Office.
And they’ll still send you the mail if you use the male titles or any of the suffixes, as I discovered when I was a small girl with a weird sense of humor. 😂
Decades ago I had a friend named Dante who named her daughter Dante Jr:)
I am a 3rd. If women can’t pass names, they’re lucky. It’s lazy and stupid. I get a part of the name but not the whole thing.
I always felt like naming your kid after yourself is just the epitome of narcism.
It’s a patriarchal thing
They can but it’s not as common. The tradition of this is common in males due to lineage. In this case the woman takes the man’s name. The goal was to preserve the male lineage. If you named your daughter the same as the mother… this would only be temporary as the daughter would marry and take a new last name…thereby no longer preserving the name.
It’s interesting to read about other cultures and how they pass names. For instance, for Portuguese, it is common for a personal name to be composed of one or two personal names, the mother’s family surname and the father’s family surname. Names can get quite long. From whst I understand there are several variations of this.
It used to be more common 100+ years ago.
I’m pretty sure rhe males only do it primarily because we live in a paternal society and not maternal. I’m sure in areas where it’s the women’s name passed down they have something similar to our Jr and Sr
My parents named their first two kids after themselves. My brother was a Jr, but not my sister. Fun fact, his birth certificate does not have Jr on it. They only gave him the Jr to differentiate him from my father. Apparently it didn’t matter that they’d need to differentiate my sister from my mom.
Once my dad died, my brother stopped using Jr.
Exceedingly rarely. I think Lucy named her daughter Lucy Jr. But generally speaking they’re not as conceited as men as far as carrying on the name… yada, yada, yada.
I have my mother’s name. She insists I was named after her grandmother, but we both were, so here we are. Our relationship is bad, and this makes it worse
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I was named after my dad, but spelled with an i at the end rather than a y. I’m not officially a Jr on my birth certificate or anything, but he always called me “Junior” when I was growing up. My husband was also named after his dad, and IS a junior on his birth certificate.