Senior and junior in Spanish

Question

How does one express the concept of "senior" and "junior" for a father and son who have the same name? I have seen, "López padre" and López hijo", but does that indicate that father and son have the same name? In searching I have come across "Douglas Fairbanks, Senior" but that may be used because that seems to be the screen name he used. I have also seen "hijo" used after the family name when father and son had different first names.

Thanks for any help you may be able to give me.

Answer 1

You can say Pedro padre y Pedro hijo. Manuel padre y Manuel hijo. Some countries have been using junior, but it's mispronounced as jew-knee-or. So it's sounds awful to me.

Answer 2

Well my wife has a bother who is a Junior. The family all call him Yuni.

Answer 3

In Argentina, for "junior" they say "hache;" as in, "Martín hache." It's slang for Martín hijo because "hache" is the word form of the letter H in Spanish. The etymology of that slang is a little deeper, like it has something to do with how "hijo" looks on medical records or something. But I agree with diagonx; in Spanish, it's often unnecessary to say junior anyways.

Answer 4

As francobollo said, some people now use "junior" in Spanish, but --except for Argentinians, who, in many cases, only have one last name- I see no valid reason for using that anglicism in Spanish, since most of us carry our mother's last name after our father's, so besides the padre-hijo distinction, we can simply add our mother's last name.