When using the suffix III can it be used without using fathers fist, middle and last name?

Question

When using the suffix III can it be used without using fathers fist, middle and last name?

Answer 1

Good question. I have actually asked it myself (in my much younger years). The answer was that to be a jr or a third, fourth, etc... you must be the name sake of the person who is the sr., 2nd, etc...That means you must share the entire name.

Answer 2

Sure:

"Hey Trey, do you wanna go get some pizza with us?"

I think you mean can Alexander Robert Smith I have a son,

Alexander Charles Smith II, who has a son Alexander Daniel Smith III. (Maybe. Sometimes we have to figure out answers, sometimes we have to figure out questions first.)

If that is your question, no. It has to be all three, unless you are Royalty. Prince Charles of England has about 12 middle names. When he becomes King Charles the Nth, his middle names and last name won't matter.

Answer 3

Someone is just called III?

Do you have a question about a specific ancestral person?

Answer 4

Yes you can, just look at the family of Henry Ford. They jumped generations in the Jr and III stuff...and it wasn't even in the same line. It's just an honorarium and you can add it on the birth certificate when the child was born and make it part of his legal name.

Answer 5

Typically, if you are going to have a line with Sr, Jr., III, IV, V, etc., you must have the same exact name (first, middle and last).  George Herbert Walker Bush (our former president) had a son named George Walker Bush. (our current president)  Even though people sometimes refer to them as Bush, Sr. and Bush Jr., they really aren't.  There isn't a suffix on either name legally either.