Yesterday there was a thread about “one-hit wonders” and one of the hits was by someone who called himself Napoleon XIV. I don’t know if he is still alive—the song was from decades ago.
Wasn’t he an NFL player?
It was, “They’re Coming to Take Me Away, HaHa.” A song that was banned from the airwaves in an eastern Kansas town that had a home for the mentally “challenged.”
John Sidney McCain, III’s son is the 4th with the same total name, which is technially required to continue the line.
I know a family here in Maine that is at the 13th or 14th generation using the same first and last name, but the recent men have different middle names. Father, son and grandson were using Sr., Jr. and III as Sr. And Jr. are well known locally (Sr. passed away a couple of years ago). The family is related to who’s who of American industry.
I dont believe the use of suffixes for names for royals and popes falls under the same concept as use in family names.