Namesake

Noun

 * 1) One who is named after another or for whom another is named.
 * 2) A person, place or thing having the same name as another.

Thesaurus
appellation, appellative, binomen, binomial name, byword, cognomen, cryptonym, denomination, designation, empty title, epithet, eponym, euonym, handle, honorific, hyponym, label, moniker, name, nomen, nomen nudum, proper name, proper noun, scientific name, secret name, style, tag, tautonym, title, trinomen, trinomial name

Etymology
. From the phrase "(one's) name's sake"; first recorded in the mid seventeenth century.

Translations

 * Bosnian:
 * Croatian:
 * Finnish:
 * Manx: co-ennymagh


 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: имењак
 * Roman: imenjak, prezimenjak (surnamesake)
 * Swedish: namne


 * Bosnian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 同名者, 同名的人
 * Croatian:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: nimekaim
 * Finnish: (person with the same name as another person) kaima, nimikaima
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Japanese: 同名異人, 同名の人


 * Manx: co-ennymagh
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:, однофамилец
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: имењак
 * Roman: imenjak, prezimenjak (surnamesake)
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: adaş