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Eponym

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The mythological Greek hero Orion is the eponym of the constellation Orion, shown here.^[1]

An eponym is a person's name that is used to name something else. This is common in some fields of knowledge.

References

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↑ "Orion Spacecraft - Nasa Orion Spacecraft". aerospaceguide.net. 15 July 2016.

Personal names and anthroponymy (or the study of the proper names of human beings)

Personal identity

By sequence

By trait

By life situation

Pseudonyms (list)

By culture
Surnames by country

East Asian	Ainu Amami Chinese Courtesy Art Generation Japanese Korean Manchu Mongolian Okinawan Taiwanese aboriginal Tibetan Vietnamese
Muslim world and Western Asia	Afghan Arabic Azerbaijani Bengali Mandaean Pakistani Pashtun Persian Sindhi Somali Tatar Turkish
Oceania	Australian Aboriginal Fijian Hawaiian Māori
Sub-Saharan Africa	Ashanti Democratic Republic of the Congo Ethiopian and Eritrean Ewe Ghanaian Igbo Yoruba Zimbabwean
Europe, North America and Australasia	Albanian Armenian Ashkenazi Jewish Basque Celtic Cornish Irish Manx Scottish Welsh Finnish French Georgian Germanic Dutch English American African-American Canadian Hongkongese German Gothic Icelandic Scandinavian Swedish Greek Ancient Greek Cypriot Hungarian Italian Kalmyk Latvian Lithuanian Portuguese Roman Praenomen Nomen Cognomen Agnomen Romanian Slavic Bulgarian Croatian Czech Eastern Slavic Belarusian Russian Ukrainian Macedonian Polish Serbian Slovak Suffixes Spanish Hispanic America Sakha
Indosphere (South Asia and Southeast Asia)	Balinese Burmese Filipino Indonesian Chinese Javanese Cambodian Malaysian Indian Ancient Tamil country Lao Sinhalese Thai

Manners of address
List
of authority/of honour

Styles	Honorific Diplomatic Imperial, royal, and noble Judiciary Religious Ecclesiastical Pre-nominal letters Suffix Emeritus Post-nominal letters Academic Orders, decorations, and medals
Titles	Academic Imperial, royal and noble Chivalric Courtesy False Hereditary Subsidiary Substantive Military Professional Academic Educational Honorary Business Diplomatic Judicial Religious Ecclesiastical Papal

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