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A name suffix in the Western English-language naming tradition, follows a person's surname (last name) and provides additional information about the person. Post-nominal letters indicate that the individual holds a position, educational degree, accreditation, office, or honor (e.g. " PhD ", " CCNA ", " OBE ").
Dale Earnhardt Jr. (born 1974), American race car driver; Jim Gilliam (1928–1978), American Major League Baseball and Negro league player and coach; Junior Giscombe (born 1957), British singer-songwriter; Ken Griffey Jr. (born 1969), American Major League Baseball Hall-of-Fame player; Antonio Morales Barreto (1943–2014), Filipino-Spanish ...
-ell (English spelling for French -el, diminutive) [citation needed]-el (Northern French and Occitan, French -eau) [citation needed]-ema (Suffix of Frisian origin, given by Napoleon Bonaparte who used suffixes like these to keep a record of people's origins within the Netherlands) [citation needed]-ems [citation needed]
Append a period, or not, (Jr. or Jr) according to the variety of English used by the article. When the surname is shown first, the suffix follows the given name, as Kennedy, John F. Jr. or Wright, Otis D. II. [m] When the given name is omitted, omit the suffix – Kennedy, not Kennedy Jr. – except where the context requires disambiguation. If ...
When a son is named after his father, "Jr."/"II", "III'", or another name suffix may be added to the name of the son (and sometimes "Sr." or a prior number to the father's name), in order to distinguish between individuals, especially if both father and son become famous, as in the case of poet Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and his son, Oliver ...
People with the same name as their father are registered as Junior (abbreviated to Jr.) or numbered with Roman numerals (III, IV, V, etc.); their father adds Senior (Sr.) after his surname or suffix. Inevitably, the younger person tends to be nicknamed Junior, Jun or Junjun permanently.
The initials T. J. are used by several noted people. This is often an abbreviation for their first and middle names, but can also be used when their first name starts with T, and the 'J' stands for Junior suffix (as in T. J. Ward), or can even be the legal first name.
Bowser Jr., a major antagonist of the Mario franchise also known simply as "Junior" or "Jr." Junior, the main protagonist in Storks; Junior Soprano, the present-ay patriarch on the TV show The Sopranos; Junior, son of the Gorgs in the Fraggle Rock television series; Junior, title character of the film Problem Child