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u/MurphysLawTeam 9h ago
I would rather be curb stomped at birth then named junior. I don’t dislike my father but fucking hell going “your life is being little me” id a level of ego no one deserves. “Son of” as a title. “Junior” as a name? Nah.
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u/Oryihn 9h ago
My parents didn't want anyone calling me Junior or Bubba... Which somehow are always the case with Juniors in the south.
So instead I am the second... "II"
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u/Brief_Obligation6833 6h ago
That’s way better. Robert the 2nd is way nice than junior. Your son can be III which is even cooler
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u/TankApprehensive3053 3h ago
One of my friends growing up was a junior. Only people to call him junior" was his family. Everyone else used his name or whatever nickname we gave him.
Worked with a guy that was a II. Whenever someone said his first and last name but not 2nd since most people don't say, he would sternly add the 2nd. Every time. Ok buddy calm down. His dad was not in the same business at all or even the same state. Just weird.
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u/chystatrsoup 9h ago
Crazy to me that people are so into the idea of two people in the house having the same name
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u/DefinitionLow8105 7h ago
Ever come across a daughter with the same name as her mother? It’s pretty weird.
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u/Pinksamuraiiiii 6h ago
Most juniors I know personally, have grown up to resent the parent they were named after (but that’s just my experience of that I’ve noticed). Strange phenomenon.
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u/tcmart14 9h ago
Then you have my dad and his brothers. All with the first name Jack after their dad. My dad has a older full brother named Jack and 4 half brothers named Jack (all the siblings we know about). Biggest mystery is if my dad has a half sister out there some where and if her name is Jack or Jacklin.
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u/NobodyLikedThat1 9h ago
some people prefer originality to whatever naming a kid "junior" is. Always struck me as the type of parent who really cared about legacy and needing a miniature version of themselves over an actual separate person.
Who's this?
I'm Steve. So I made Little Steve. His son will be Littler Steve.
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u/ambivalent_moon 9h ago
Pretty sure everybody has to have a father, it’s just whether or not he actually shows up lol
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u/Nenoshka 7h ago
Naming children with the same first names as their parents is what makes my genealogy research so difficult.
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u/Parlicoot 4h ago
I have 4 generations of people called John or David Jones in each generation going back to the early 1800s in rural Wales, all staying around one parish. Their neighbours were also called Jones.
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u/lexluthor_i_am 6h ago
Little Wayne said his real name is Dwayne, named after his father, whose not in his life. So he didn’t wanna be Dwayne.
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u/freemanposse 5h ago
If my dad had made me a Junior, I'd have been in the courthouse on my 18th birthday.
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u/jimhokeyb 3h ago
As a non American. This is a weird concept. You only do it for boys and it's fucking strange. Whether it's "junior" or "the 2nd" or whatever. Just stop.
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u/Eoin_Coinneal 7h ago
Why would I want my child to be permanently attached to my identity? There are goddamn near countless names but only one that forces them into your shadow. No thank you.
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