1. I was named after my father.

2. Paul was named after his grandad.

3. McCarthyism is named after the American politician Joseph McCarthy, who in the 1950s accused many Americans of being Communists.

4. England was named after the Angles.

5. He was named after his father .

6. John was named after his uncle.

7. The square was named after Duffy.

8. Every parish was named after a saint.

9. The boy was named after his uncle.

10. The machine is named after its inventor.

11. The street is named after the famous South African leader, Nelson Mandela.

12. Tasmania was named after its discoverer, A . J . Tasman.

13. The cartoon character he was named after was cuter.

14. Each group is named after a fictional character like Mickey Mouse.

15. Pau brasil, the tree the country was named after, is used for violin bows.

16. Hadrian Road was named after the Roman emperor who, we agreed, must have genetically bequeathed to us some superlative qualities.

17. Shell's large deep-sea tankers have been named after shells in an unbroken line since the launching of the Murex in 1892.

18. Born in the scalding heat of the equator, she had, after all, been named after snow.

19. We used to joke that she was named after a local cinema.

20. The museum's new gallery will be named after the Andersons.

21. They are named after the man who inferred their existence from weak attractive forces shown by atoms and molecules in gases.

22. Had Marshall hoped it might be named after him?

23. This child will be named after his father.

24. They suggested that it be named after him.

25. Some believe it should be named after a province.

26. New schools are less likely to be named after people.

27. The Mona Lisa was painted between 1503-1506 and was thought to be named after the sitter, most likely the Florentine wife of Francesco del Giocondo.

28. They found similar results in every state: new schools are less likely to be named after people.

29. I am told that each of you will plant and adopt two trees. The trees will be named after you.

30. A few weeks later, Mann paid for a symmetry group to be named after Jermaine Defoe when the player rejoined Spurs.

31. It is natural that March should be named after this god since in most of North America, it is a month of strong winds, rain, and storms.

32. Scutum is one of two constellations to be named after real people. Coma Berenices was named for an Egyptian queen.

33. That'd be a little ironic, that cold soup would be named after hot springs.

34. Do the gentleman-like thing, ask for the kid to be named after you, write her a check for 18 years of child support,[] and get a vasectomy.

35. The Oscar-winning Jolie adopted a baby girl she called Zahara, now 3 years old, from Ethiopia in July 2005 and the new clinic will be named after her.

36. If you have given significant support to a program, ask that it be named after you or the name of your business.

37. The holiday is said to be named after a priest in Rome who suffered martyrdom about AD 269.

38. The birthplace of the new program, German cultural organization the Goethe Institute, also happens to be named after one of her father's favorite authors, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

39. It is also said to be named after Saint William of York or after William the Conqueror.

40. His family suggested that his invention should be named after him.

41. For example, in Arizona, public schools in the past twenty years were almost fifty times more likely to be named after such things as landforms or plants.

42. It was thought to be named after the sitter, most likely the Florentine wife of Francesco del Giocondo.