Can you add Jr to any name?

kellyh21

If your child does not have the same exact name as you, can you still add Jr on the birth certificate? I know this seems completely stupid and I do not want to do this but I just wondering if there are laws about it?  

HannahO28

I don't think there are any laws, but traditionally, you have to have the same name to be a Jr. I would side-eye anyone who used the title without having the same name.

cheese.fiend

I do not think there are any laws about what you can name your baby AT ALL.  You can pretty much put whatever the heck you want on a birth certificate.  Not that you should.  

SmileyIsMe

I'm pretty sure you can name your kid whatever you want. On Maury once, a woman had a baby with a guy named Sammy Davis Jr (his dad was Sammy Davis). She then named her son Sammy Davis Jr Jr. Apparently she didn't understand the concept.

anna7602

If you're worried, you could just got for "Yunior" as a first name.

Emiliana7

As others have said- no laws, just tradition. However if you want to call your son Junior you could use it as his middle name: David Junior Smith. My dad's mn is Junior (never went by it.) However he's had to correct some people thinking he is a Jr. such as First J. Last Jr. and he isn't a Jr. so it has its drawbacks.

 And you don't have to be a Jr to be a II (second) that's the tradition behind the difference between those two. Say if you wanted to name your son after FIL, your son would be a II (not a Jr!); however if you prefer II over Jr and are naming your son after your husband- that's acceptable.

appylovee

I really don't think there are any lasw about this, you can name your child whatever you want, not that you always should. Jr. at the end of a name is usualy associated with tradition and such. My step father is a jr and his name is exactly like his dads, except with a jr at the end. You can name your child Junior as a first or mn. I personally have only met jrs who had the exact same name as their fathers.

Smootchy

John Bob Smith (dad)

Earl Frank Smith Jr (son) sadly, legally, I think you could...

salt78

cheese.fiend:

I do not think there are any laws about what you can name your baby AT ALL.  

There isn't.

If those parents in Jersey could name their kids Adolf Hitler and Aryan Nation, I definitely don't think that it's illegal to throw a Jr. on the end of a name.