Reply #6: When I worked in a credit bureau

[SheilaT]

back in the early paleolithic, before there were computers, I saw credit reports between fathers and sons with the same names becoming hopelessly confused. It turned me completely against ever giving a child the same name as a parent. I suspect that in these modern days of computers the confusion is often worse and it's probably even harder to separate the two credit files. Back when everything was written down on pieces of paper, it was possible for someone to go through and actually separate out the two accounts.

Jokerman, do NOT name a son of yours Jokerman junior, or worse yet III or IV. It not only shows a deplorable lack of imagination, but it can screw up multiple generations of credit reports into the foreseeable future.