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tbf that was common in a lot of countries. in rome septimius just means ‘the seventh one’, lot of people were named that, there were also female ones like nona, secunda, octavia, etc.
germanic and slavic countries would often name kids by the day they were born on, which was typically named after a god. so a person born on Thursday would be named Thor or Thora and so on
generally it was a good practice to not get too attached to your kids back then, way too likely that theyd die
It was the girls who got numbered, since Chinese culture valued boys over girls
if you could provide what those names are id be interested in knowing, i kinda doubt that it would be only for girls
one of the classics of Chinese literature, Water Margin, opens on a character called Gao the Second because he’s the second son of the Gao family (but people gave him the nickname “Gao Qiu” or Gao “the Ball” instead)
