namesake

His mother was a member of the august Carrillo family, and his father was a captain in the Mexican army, killed in the Cahuenga Pass when his namesake son was just a few weeks old.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

Across its brands -- which apart from the namesake include Mini and Rolls-Royce -- BMW last year delivered a total 2.46 million vehicles.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

To be considered for an asteroid namesake, someone must nominate you, and in Nežič's case, two people put his name forward.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

The restaurant operator on Tuesday reported a spike in revenue to $1.03 billion from $907.2 million a year earlier, driven by a 15.2% same-store sales increase at the company’s namesake brand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Most women would be offended to be mistaken for the ghostly apparition, but she did not flinch at the horrific namesake.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

Aegon’s descendants revere the Conqueror so highly that he has numerous prominent namesakes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

Before he was an international sports mogul, he was Enos Stanley Kroenke from rural Missouri with sporting heritage scrawled right on his birth certificate—his namesakes were St. Louis Cardinals legends Enos Slaughter and Stan Musial.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

After the family moved to England in 2010, the boys would often meet their namesakes at Etihad Stadium.

From BBC ● May 29, 2025

Like their mythical namesakes, these pygmy squids are intimately connected with their natural environments in the emerald waters of Okinawa.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2023

When she had visited Chicago a couple of years ago, she had told Petra that all of her namesakes had grown up to be very beautiful and very lucky.

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett