Names with numbers - Numbers - Part III. Style 20 spelling

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Names with numbers
Numbers
Part III. Style 20 spelling

Some types of personal, governmental, and organizational names include numbers given in either words or numerals. See also 22.1 for capitalization of proper names generally.

Leaders. Emperors, sovereigns, or popes with the same first name are differentiated by capitalized roman numerals (see table 23.1).

Charles V

Napoleon III

Elizabeth II

Benedict XVI

Family members. Male family members with identical full names are often differentiated with roman or arabic numerals (see also 24.2.1). Note that there are no commas between the name and the numeral.

Adlai E. Stevenson III

Michael F. Johnson 2nd

Governments and political divisions. Certain dynasties, governments, governing bodies, political and judicial divisions, and military units are commonly designated by an ordinal number before the noun. Spell out and capitalize numbers through one hundred (with a hyphen between the parts of the number, if relevant); use numerals for those over one hundred.

Nineteenth Dynasty

Fourteenth Congressional District

Fifth Republic

Forty-seventh Ward

Eighty-first Congress

Tenth Circuit

109th Congress

101st Airborne Division

Churches and religious organizations. Spell out and capitalize numbers before the names of churches or religious organizations in ordinal form (with a hyphen between the parts of the number, if relevant).

Twenty-first Church of Christ, Scientist

Secular organizations. Express local branches of fraternal lodges and unions in numerals following the name.

American Legion, Department of Illinois, Crispus Attucks Post no. 1268

United Auto Workers, Local 890