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A namesake is a person named after another, or more broadly, a thing (such as a company, place, ship, building, or concept) named after a person or thing that first had the name. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a namesake is also defined as "a person or thing that has the same name as another".

The word is first recorded in the mid-17th century, and probably comes from the phrase "for [the, my, his, her] name's sake".

In general, the second recipient of a name, named for the first, is said to be the namesake of the first. The attribution can, however, go in the opposite direction, with namesake referring to the original holder of the name (the eponym).

Strictly speaking, a namesake is only a person named for another person—i.e., for the sake of the other's name, to keep it alive. Many dictionaries, however, following colloquial usage, acknowledge that things as well as persons may be or have namesakes, and (usually in a secondary definition) that the other for whom the person (or thing) is named, strictly the latter's eponym, may be called its "namesake".