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Naming Conventions - Suffix Abbreviations (Post Nominal)

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A name suffix in the Western English-language naming tradition, follows a person's full name and provides additional information about the person.

Post-nominal letters, also called post-nominal initials, post-nominal titles, designatory letters or simply post-nominals, are letters placed after a person's name to indicate that the individual holds a position, an academic degree, accreditation, an office, a military decoration, or honour, or is a member of a religious institute or fraternity. An individual may use several different sets of post-nominal letters, but in some contexts it may be customary to limit the number of sets to one or just a few.

Generational

Generational suffixes are used to distinguish persons who share the same name within a family. A generational suffix can be used informally (for disambiguation purposes or as nicknames) and is often incorporated in legal documents

  • I / II / III / IV etc
  • America - senior / junior or Sr. / Jr.
  • Australia - Snr / Jnr
  • Britain - Snr. / Jnr.
  • Dutch - sr. / jr.
  • French - père / fils
  • Irish - óg (young), sometimes anglicised as "oge"
  • Swedish - den äldre (the elder) and den yngre (the younger), abbreviated d.ä. and d.y.
  • Estonian - Sen / Jun or sen / jun, also sometimes with full words: seenior / juunior (rarely: vanem / noorem (for Dumas and other writers))

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