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Ananias Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

What do you call name suffixes like jr., sr. esq, etc?

Is there an English noun for name suffixes as a group?
  

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Yes, they are called 'name suffixes': 'A name suffix, in the Western naming tradition, follows a person’s full name and provides additional information about the person. ' ( Wikipedia , granted). ' are personal name suffixes.

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  • Yes, they are called 'name suffixes': 'A name suffix, in the Western naming tradition, follows a person’s full name and provides additional information about the person.
  • ' ( Wikipedia , granted).
  • ' are personal name suffixes.
  • ' is a professional name suffix.
  • 'MBA' is an academic name suffix.
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Yes, they are called 'name suffixes':

'A name suffix, in the Western naming tradition, follows a person’s full name and provides additional information about the person. There are academic, honorary, professional and social name suffixes.' (Wikipedia, granted).

'Jr.' and 'Sr.' are personal name suffixes.
'Esq.' is a professional name suffix.
'MBA' is an academi
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Rats. I was hoping for a one word term. I guess that's my so-called luck.
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They are called a "suffix". These include suffixes like Jr., Sr., III, etc. and do NOT include "professional suffixes" such as MD, PhD, etc.

(I'm designing a contact database and am studying the names of these fields, etc.)

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Richard A. Allcorn

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In doing some research in names, for a contact database project I am working on, I found the following:

Sample name:

Dr. John P. Doe, III PhD.

prefix=Dr. (the professional, or courtesy title: Mr., Mrs., Dr., Master, Miss, etc.)

first name=John (Christian name, given name, prename, forename)

middle name=
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also called post nominal letters.
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Is "Monroe" any type of suffix ? John Doe Monroe "

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It's called a "cadence," from the Italian musical term, "cadenza," meaning a closing embellishment or ornamentation.

You'll sometimes see the term on government online e-forms after it's asked you to type in your name.

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What country?

USA.

There's also a heraldic term, cadency, defined as a "systematic way to distinguish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms displayed by https://en.wikipedia.

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