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What's in a (Roman) Name?
A Roman woman normally had no personal name, but was known by the name of her gens, or tribe. For example, Gaius Julius Caesar's daughter was Julia. Marcus Tullius Cicero's daughter was named Tullia. However, many of the women we read about had two or more names. We can only imagine how difficult it would have been otherwise.

Some examples of famous women with more than one name are:
Poppaea Sabina - Nero's second wife
Annia Galeria Faustina - wife of Antoninus Pius. This is also her daughter's name (pictured above), wife of Marcus Aurelius.
Julia Domna - wife of Septimius Severus

The name maker above is generous; it calculates two names for all women, empress or otherwise. The second name calculated is the name of your gens (tribe).

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