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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2409188, member: 19463&quot;]Romans used a very small list of praenomena.&nbsp; There are a few rare ones but most are seen with their standard abbreviation.&nbsp; For example T is always Titus but TI is always Tiberius.&nbsp; For a reason of archaic letters, we always say Gaius but abbreviate it C (not G).</p><p>See:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praenomen" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praenomen" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praenomen</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I might add that most families used only a few names.&nbsp; If your praenomen was not the same as your father&#039;s, you probably had a brother who was using that one and you had the one used by an uncle or grandfather.&nbsp; Lucius was extremely common as was Marcus, Gaius and Publius.&nbsp; I suspect those names account for over half of the free men of good families.&nbsp; Slaves could be named as you wish like we do dogs.&nbsp; On coins we see a few less common ones more often because they were the name of choice in a certain family.&nbsp; For example, Tiberius was used by the Claudii who provided several coin issuing personalities.&nbsp; Most, however will be C, M and L.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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