name after

to give someone or something the same name as someone or something else.

• I was named after my uncle.
• He was named after the king.
• You're named after your father.
• I'm named after your grandfather.
• Thomas was named after his father.
• This building was named after him.
• He was named after his grandfather.
• She was named after her grandmother.
• My first son was named after my uncle.
• I was named after my great-grandfather.
• It was named after Frankfurt, a German city.
• He must have been named after his grandfather.
• I would hate to have a disease named after me.
• It was named after the first American president.
• Halley's comet was named after Sir Edmond Halley.
• Selena Gomez was named after the Tejano singer Selena.
• It's not every day you get a building named after you.
• The Cornette-trilogy was named after the ice cream brand.
• There is a crater on the Moon named after Albert Einstein.
• My grandmother was named after my great-great-grandmother.
• All the streets in this area are named after famous people.
• The charity is named after a man who gave away some two billion yen.
• That charity is named after a person who donated about two billion yen.
• That charity is named after someone who contributed about two billion yen.
• Lulu Island was named after a possibly Hawaiian showgirl, Lulu Sweet, in 1862.
• Ceres is named after the Roman goddess of growing plants, harvest, and motherly love.
• Out in the furthest reaches of the galaxy there are a bunch of stars named after dead actors.
• Antoine Louis invented the guillotine, which was, however, named after Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin.