Naming of large families

Large families were obviously more common in past generations and we
have a number of examples of 10+ children. This must obviously have
taxed creativity in thinking up names.

One family we have documented had the names Septimus and Octavius
amongst the sons' middle names, though these were the eighth and ninth
children (suggesting that one of the earlier siblings had died by the
time of their births). Other than these derived from the Latin for 7

mvernonconnolly...

The same happened with some ancestors of my stepfather: they called a
son Septimus- he was actually the 12th child, and 8th son, but one
brother had by then died. He evidently died young as well, as there was
then another Septimus- again the seventh son then living, but in total
the ninth son and 14th child; and just to add to the confusion, the
next child was Joseph Decimus, being the tenth son in toto- although
only the eighth living! Of course the worst naming pattern of all is to
give the same names to younger children as already borne by their
living siblings- most confusing for us.

Fenny...

Isn't it just easier to call them Molesworth, Molesworth 2, etc.

and 8, what other names are derived from numerics? I can't immediately

Jenny M Benson...

Quentin (5) is not all that uncommon.

I have an old (1930/40s) baby name book which includes Tertius (3) as a
boy's name and Prima/Primalia (1), Tertia/Terza (3), Quintina (5),
Septima (7), Octavia (8), Nona (9) and Decima (10) as girls' names.

think of any.

David Nicholson...

Juan.

David Nicholson

Also any other evidence of naming of children that followed patterns?