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The suffix is an explanation of the first name, not the last. "John Doe Jr." means he is John, the son of John. In a full name listing, the suffix follows the last name because the person is primarily known by is given name and surname, the suffix being a secondary piece of information.
In less formal situations, the suffix may be omitted. Hence: Mrs. Lon Chaney Jr. on a wedding invitation, but Mrs. L. Chaney or simply Shannon Chaney for a friendly note. Widows are entitled to retain their late husband's full names and suffixes, but divorcees may not continue to style themselves with a former husband's full name and suffix ...
I'm searching for two words that adequately describe and differentiate between the following two categories/groups of words, given they exist in english: Ms, Mr, Mrs, Miss etc. Dr, Prof, Revd etc.
Suffix is a noun meaning the last part of a string of characters (e.g., a word). For example: A gerund has suffix "ing". *A file-name extension is the part of a file-name suffix that follows ".". E.g., for file name "foobar.el", the base file name "foobar" is followed by the suffix ".el"; it has extension "el".
After all, John Smith, Sr., and John Smith, Jr., and John Smith III all have the same last name: Smith. John David Jones, the son of John Daniel Jones, is not John Jones, Jr., so both of them would be listed as Jones; I think the Smiths would be listed the same way, although I don't have an authoritative reference to base that on.
To answer your first question, monarchical ordinal is the name for the number placed after a king or a Pope's name. It is also called a regnal number as it is appended to a regnal name. In other cases like numbers appended after family names, a familial ordinal should do, though it is not at all common and unlikely to be understood. Instead one ...
In my case, it is important that reports be sorted so users can find the person they are looking for. Most of the time, the user looks first for surname, and then for given name. Titles and suffixes are the last thing they'll look at. For example, we want. Jack Smith. to precede. John Smith III. And so I use: Surname, Given Name, Title, Suffix
The most common name suffixes are senior and junior, most frequent in American usage, which are written with a capital first letter ("Jr." and "Sr.") with or without an interceding comma. The British English abbreviations are "Jnr" and 'Snr', respectively.
The standard way to form a name using a simple patronymic byname for men is: <single given name> mac <father's given name (in genitive case & sometimes lenited)> which means <given name> son <of father's given name> For example, Donnchadh who is the son of Fearchar mac Domhnaill would be: Donnchadh mac Fearchair which means Donnchadh son of ...
And in fact, Wikipedia on suffix names states that: In the United States the most common name suffixes are senior and junior, which are written with a capital first letter ("Jr." and "Sr.") with or without an interceding comma. In Britain these are more rare, but when they are used the abbreviations are "Jnr" and "Snr", respectively.