Namesake

A namesake is a person, place, or thing bearing the name of another. Most commonly, it refers to an individual who is purposely named after another^[1] (e.g. John F. Kennedy Jr would be the namesake of John F. Kennedy). In common parlance, it may mean vice-versa (i.e. referring to the entity for which the second entity is named); in such a case, however, the proper term would be "eponym."^[2]^[3]^[1]^[4]

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