be named for (someone or something)
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To be given the same name as someone or something else. It's a bit unusual, but their daughter is named for a river in Tahiti. Their new line of electric cars was named for a famous 19th-century inventor. I was named for my grandfather on my mother's side.
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- be named after (someone or something)
- name (someone or something) after (someone or something)
- name (someone or something) for (someone or something)
- name after
- name for
- something else
- else
- there was/is something about (someone or something)
- there's something about (someone or something)
- there's something about somebody/something