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vb. To intentionally give someone the same name or a derivation of the same name as another person, place, or thing.
Usage examples of "name after".
Wyndham also wrote under a number of other pseudonyms, and several titles were released under his name after his death.
He was all togged out in a well-fitting worsted with a camel's-hair topcoat tossed across his shoulders, and he felt like the million dollars he looked, even if he did have only a dollar and ten cents to his name after he had bought a nine dollar and ninety cents box-seat ticket.
The murder had been done in his name after all, and if Julius knew, Tubruk would be able to send anonymous gifts to the families of Casaverius, Fercus, and the parents of the young soldier who had stood against him at the gate.
The laughed at him, and called him coward, liar, sneak, and other sorts of pet names, and told him they meant to call Chambers by a new name after this, and make it common in the town—.
They also describe his preparation of a skeletal army that will subdue the survivors in Mock's name after the plague has run its course.