Why are girls never JRs?

[JR6ooo4]

Like Mary Jr.
or
Elizabeth Jr.

Mikeeee

Ooops. I thought I had the Community Board as the current tab. Feel free to answer anyway, if you know.

 

[alan]

My guess would be that the Miss/Mrs thing would (historically) normally be enough to differentiate the generations. I don't think that you Americans go in for the Master prefix, am I right?

regards,
/alan

 

[wenrob]

I'm thinking because "back when" it was important to pass on the male name and not necessarily the female name so they used Jr. and Sr. to tell them apart. That's a total guess though.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

My nextdoor neighbor has a female junior, but not a male junior.

 

[Experiment_626]

Yeah, it is my understanding that they do exist, but are (of course) much more rare than with males. No reason they couldn't be more common, beyong tradition, I suppose.

SSB

 

[PhotobearSam]

My mom and Grandmother were both Mary...And my Mom's aunt Myrtle had a daughter Myrtle... But they always nickname the girls not add a Jr.

I am so happy that stopped with my Mom's generation.

BTW, they called her Dolly...She hated that.

 

[wenrob]

My son's name is William David after my dad and DH and DH wanted to name his twin sister Wendy after me. For some reason I just couldn't do it even as a middle name. She ended up with my mn as part as her first name but that's as far as I would go. I can't explain why it didn't bother me to give my son his grandpa and dad's names but it made me uncomfortable to give my daughter mine. Maybe other woman feel the same? Both my grandmothers told me not to name my DD's after them in no uncertain terms. Maybe it's just the women in my family who have a problem w/it. I do have two nieces who's mn's are after me and that doesn't weird me out. This novel to say I have no idea why....

 

[fireplug]

My partner on the ambulance is named Sandy and she has a daughter named Sandy

Squid

 

[jann1033]

because women know it is hard to get your mail if you have a jr and senior living in the same area up until 5 yrs ago still got mail for father in law, who died in 1988

 

[alan]

One thing I'm so glad I insisted upon - our children's initials are different from each others' and different from both of ours.

Makes postal mail much easier to deal with

regards,
/alan

 

[Chaoster]

I would think maybe if a female got married and changed her last name or even kept her maiden name and added the hubby's name she wouldn't be jr. anymore. Unless she just kept her own last name and not use hubby's.

 

[Philadisney]

My friend was going to name her child after herself ("Marcella Jr") if she had a girl. But she had a boy.