Why do Americans call their son Junior ?

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Tony Parker Junior's father is Tony Parker Senior.

If Tony Parker Junior has a male child, what will happen?

- will he name him Tony Parker Junior Junior?
- will he become Tony Parker Senior, his father Tony Parker Senior Senior, and his son Tony Parker Junior?
- will he become Tony Parker Normal, his father remain Tony Parker Senior, and his child Tony Parker Junior?

>>69818618

It use to be very common to give a son the same name as the father. You separate them by senior and junior. If they kept giving sons the same name it would become [their name] the third, the fourth, and so on.

Only old timers really call people junior as a general term for younger people anymore. I only know one person that is actually a junior.

>>69819484
>>69819698

>>69819484
Tony Parker III

>>69819698
> You separate them by senior and junior.
Why not by the middle name?

>>69819791

In order to be a junior you would have the same middle name.

>John David Smith Sr.
>John David Smith Jr.
>John David Smith III

>John David Smith
>John Edward Smith

John Edward Smith is not a junior.

>>69819885
>John David Smith Sr.
>John David Smith Jr.
>John David Smith III
That's stupid, mate.

Why not this:
>John David Smith
>Edward John Smith
>Nathan Edward Smith
or something
Like Russians do with their patronyms.

They also do that here.

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>>69819746
>americans are this pretentios
Oh good god.

>>69820064
>pretentious

>>69820002
Isn't that common all over

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>>69818618
>Why do Americans call their son Junior ?
Hahaha, no, they call their son "mini me".

>>69820170
Mini me is the same height as the average man in Nippon.

>>69820002

It really isn't common these days.

A lot of people have a name that gets passed down, but they don't make them juniors.

For whatever reason Edward is a name that gets passed down on both sides of my family, so males get it as their first or middle name.

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>>69820064
I hereby present you Jean II Makoun

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>>69820629
Meet Jan Paweł II.

>>69820217
>Asspain levels of uncalled hate
come home white man