Thread:KalKent/@comment-31705651-20200108200803/@comment-16461120-20200108203005

It's a complicated question, in real life there are three types of juniors, the first being a son who has Jr. actually legally included on their birth certificate, and the second simply sharing the same name as their father and thus being an unofficial Jr. simply to avoid confusion. Traditionally the father would then assume an unofficial Sr. designation to likewise avoid confusion, and both unofficial designations would often be dropped upon the father's death.

The third type of junior is similar to the second, an unofficial designation that follows a family who carries a tradition of naming an individual after their father. In this case the first generation would have no suffix while the second generation would be denoted with the Roman numeral II, third generation a III, fourth generation a IV, etc. and the unofficial designation of Jr. would be applied to the younger generation as the older generation assumed the unofficial designation of Sr. and this changed from generation to generation as the senior passed away.