{"id":11230,"date":"2015-04-25T15:43:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T19:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=11230"},"modified":"2015-04-25T17:09:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T21:09:39","slug":"baby-naming-issue-can-the-baby-be-a-iv-if-the-middle-name-is-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2015\/04\/25\/baby-naming-issue-can-the-baby-be-a-iv-if-the-middle-name-is-changed\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Naming Issue: Can the Baby Be a Jr.\/III\/IV\/V If the Middle Name Is Changed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>So a baby boy is about to be born. He will be Anthony Steven B_______ the fifth.<\/p>\n<p>My daughter wants to change the middle name to Scott. Does that take away the ability for this little guy to carry on the tradition?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m afraid so: the suffixes Jr., III, IV, etc., are only used if the name is exactly the same. However, I will note that the name police will not leap out and prevent her from doing it. And I think it&#8217;s sweet of her to want to honor her side of the family as well as her husband&#8217;s (if I&#8217;m making the correct assumption here based on your email address). It might make for a nice compromise and\/or a gentle way to break the tradition: give the baby his father&#8217;s first name and surname, but use his mother&#8217;s father&#8217;s name for the middle and drop the V suffix.<\/p>\n<p>Another option is to use the exact name and the suffix, but call him Scott. I went to school with a boy whose name was something like Howard Duke Polman IV, and he went by Scott. And I know a child whose name is something like Richard Paul Sampson IV, and he goes by Jack. When there are a lot of people in a family with the exact same name, nicknames get scarce and everyone gets more understanding of workarounds.<\/p>\n<p>Another option is to use the exact name and the suffix, and save Scott for a possible future child. Maybe _____ Scott B_______ (for a boy or a girl), or Scott [mother&#8217;s maiden name, or another significant name from the mother&#8217;s side] B_______. I&#8217;d love to see it become a tradition that if one parent gets to use a naming tradition for one child, the other parent gets nearly full naming rights for the next child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So a baby boy is about to be born. He will be Anthony Steven B_______ the fifth. My daughter wants to change the middle name to Scott. Does that take away the ability for this little guy to carry on the tradition? &nbsp; I&#8217;m afraid so: the suffixes Jr., III, IV, etc., are only used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-2V8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11230"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11238,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11230\/revisions\/11238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}