“I’m so sick of your Roman obsession, even our son is affected by it!”
“You leave Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus out of this!”
When your partner’s Roman phase never ended and now your child has the full imperial name package. Augustus included, obviously. Junior gets called by his full tria nomina at school roll call.
Gorgocutie’s Verdict:
This is every Roman history enthusiast’s dream and their partner’s nightmare. The Roman naming tradition was serious business — praenomen, nomen, cognomen — and this guy went all in with three of the most loaded names in Roman history: Marcus Aurelius (the philosopher emperor) and Antoninus Augustus (the imperial title).
The real punchline is that naming your kid after a Roman emperor is honestly pretty mild compared to actual Roman parents, who named their children things like “Decimus” (tenth) and “Sextus” (sixth) just because of the birth order. At least little Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus can go by Marcus.
On the bright side, he’ll probably think about the Roman Empire every day. Just like his father.
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