name after / name for

(US also name sb/sth for sb/sth)
to give someone or something the same name as another person or thing:
Paul was named after his grandfather.
She told us about his brother, Apollo, born in 1969 and named for the US astronauts' mission to the moon.
We named our dogs after Tolkien characters.
We named all our children after football players.
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus からの name sb/sth after sb/sth の定義 © Cambridge University Press)

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