namesake

"I was only kidding, but Dana loves the idea," Trump told reporters on the tarmac of his namesake airport in Florida.

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

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

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

“And now—if I don’t make haste to write this note you’d get the news that your namesake was here—before then I just want to bid you good-day.”

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

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

She is Cori Andersen, a teacher from Murrieta, and the two namesakes often text and occasionally visit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 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

I also wish I could have included the proto-punk group the Monks, who often dressed like their namesakes, but the band’s great 1966 album “Black Monk Time” isn’t available on any streaming platforms.

From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2023

He didn't miss her enough to become obsessed with her name, to date her namesakes over and over and over and over again.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green