Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more

Re:Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more by aleksiy123 on Monday February 10, 2025 @03:23PM (#43004704)

I believe some Ancient Roman names are also like this:

Male: Sextus, Septimus, Octavius, Nonus.

Female: Prima, Secunda, Tertia, Quarta, Quinta, Sexta, Octavia, Nona, and Decima

But on further investigation the males seem to actually be named after months https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/zshd6h/when_...

and the women are unclear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praenomen

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Re:Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more by ItalianPoetry on Friday February 14, 2025 @10:12AM (#43049125)

I don't know about Ancient Romans, but I do know a few Italian men with numbered names. In particular a Decimo (tenth), who was indeed the tenth (and I wouldn't swear the last).

They are all, unsurprisingly, old :)

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