Redpill me on Roman naming conventions, /his/. >Lucius Septimius

Latin languages names can be very long, it's a cultural thing.

That was full name of Pedro I of Brazil: Pedro de Alcântara Francisco António João Carlos Xavier de Paula Miguel Rafael Joaquim José Gonzaga Pascoal Cipriano Serafim

From what I remember most people only had 3. There was a given name, of which only about a dozen or so were in circulation at a time, a family name, which is kind of like our surnames but more homogenous and more directly linked to a "clan", and a "street name" or common name. This would be like a nickname, Rufus if you had red hair for example.

Not sure why Emperors had ridiculously long names.

Caesar and Augustus were more titles than names when Marcus Aurelius was emperor.
Pius should be self-explanatory.

A good way at remembering Roman names is looking at the Kings.

First you have a single name: Romulus, then two names, a given: Numa. Numa who, Numa Pompilius?

Then you get the last two kings, who have the same Given and Family Names, so a third name is given to distinguish.

As time went on, this Third name also became heritable, and became sort of a clan distinction. Oh, you're a Julian, but which branch-the Caesar branch.

This worked for a long time, with the given names being flipped around, and if a person was overtly successful, they'd get a fourth, or third had they not had one, name, like Africanus.

This worked, until you got Emperors, and then things went full retard

>>2131895
Basically what he says >>2132760

Regarding emperor names, "Caesar", "Pius" and "Augustus" are not names, but titles.

Also when you were adopted, you would change your name for the one of your adoptive father, which is the reason for the first name change in your example.

>>2132760
>>2132820
>Not sure why Emperors had ridiculously long names.
>"Caesar", "Pius" and "Augustus" are not names, but titles.
They were sort of halfway on their way from being names to title. It's a question of emphasising your lineage and your claim to be the heir of Julius Caesar and Augustus.

>>2131895
Romans loved to brag so they used lots of titles and names. When someone won a major victory they would get a title. (e.g. magnus for big,strong or place where they gained the victory like afrikanus.). Sometimes they would add tribe where they are from or if they are adopted names of from both family.

>>2133032
That's true, but they still had to be bestowed on somebody. People couldn't just go around and name their children Augustus, whereas Gaius, Drusus, Quintus, etc. was still perfectly fine.