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* In ''Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof'', in keeping with Jewish tradition, Tevye and Golde's eldest daughter Tzeitel is named after Golde's deceased grandmother, while her love interest Motel, whose full name is Mordachai, is named after a deceased great-uncle.

* In ''Theatre/{{Allegiance}}'' Kei and Frankie name their daughter Hanako (frequently shortened to Hana) after the internment camp's nurse, Hannah, who was one of the few staff workers that always kindly took care of them and who was accidentally shot during a scuffle between Frankie and a few of the camp's armed guards.

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* ''In ''Film/CoalMinersDaughter'', Loretta Lynn names one of her daughters Patsy after her close friend Patsy Cline, who was killed in a plane crash. TruthInTelevision: Patsy Lynn grew up to be a country singer too.

* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'': In the appendices, it can be seen that Sam named his firstborn son Frodo and a later son Bilbo (although they are technically probably not dead yet, just gone away). His other children are also named after his living friends and family, but still.
** Given the age (and rate-of-aging) difference, it's possible that little Faramir Took is an example too.

* In ''Dosti: Friends Forever'', Karan names his son after his best friend Raj, who died of an IncurableCoughOfDeath.

* ''Simon Birch'' reveals at the end that Simon's best childhood friend named his son after the boy, many years after his HeroicSacrifice.

* In one ''ComicBook/SupermanBatman'' story set not long after Jason Todd's death, [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]] visited [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Clark Kent]] in Smallville on the anniversary of the supposed death of a man they failed to save. During the visit, a small crisis erupts when a woman suddenly goes into labor in her home while the doctor who was presiding over the birth suddenly had a heart attack. Superman helps the mother give birth while Batman provides emergency treatment for the doctor. On the next day when Bruce has breakfast with the Kents Clark mentions off-hand that he suggested the name "Jason" for the newborn boy.

* James Rogers from ''WesternAnimation/NextAvengersHeroesOfTomorrow'', named in honor of [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers's]] best friend [[ComicBook/BuckyBarnes James "Bucky" Barnes]], who died during WWII.

** In ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', Nathaniel Pietro Barton, Clint's newborn son, is named after [[ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}} Pietro Maximoff]], who performed a HeroicSacrifice to save Clint's life earlier in the film.

** ''Film/BlackPantherWakandaForever'': [[spoiler: TheStinger reveals that prior to the events of ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' T'Challa and Nakia had a son, Prince T'Challa, whom the latter decided to raise in Haiti away from the stress of being a blood heir to the throne.]]
* The Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse version of ComicBook/LexLuthor is revealed to have been named after his father in ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' rather than [[AdaptationalNameChange his father being named Jules or]] [[Series/{{Smallville}} Lionel]].

* ''Film/BirdBox'': Malorie eventually names her children [[spoiler:"Tom" and "Olympia", for people who both died.]]

* Creator/IsaacAsimov and Creator/JanetAsimov's ''Literature/NorbysOtherSecret'': A {{Downplayed|Trope}} example; at the end of the book, when Jeff is given Oola's egg, he decides that he'll name it Oola Two. But Oola is still alive and he hardly ever mentions the Two part, simply calling her Oola in future books.

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}''

* ''Series/{{NCIS}}''

*** Lyla and John Diggle decide to name their newborn daughter Sara in honor of Sara Lance, the recently deceased ComicBook/BlackCanary. Then Sara comes back to life. And then Flash changes history and they never had a daughter, they've got a son named John Jr. Finally, Sara comes back in the post-Crisis Earth Prime, and J.J. stays as well.
*** Mia Smoak is actually short for Moira Smoak, Moira being the name of [[ComicBook/GreenArrow Ollie]]'s late mother.

** In ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'', the mysterious girl who's been showing up throughout the fourth season is eventually revealed to be [[ComicBook/TheFlash Barry]] and Iris' daughter from the future, named Nora after Barry's late mother. Partially an AdaptationNameChange as Barry and Iris' daughter in the comics is called Dawn, but also partially a result of being a CompositeCharacter of Barry and Iris's daughter Dawn, a daughter called Nora who Barry had with another woman in a different continuity, and Jenni Ognats, Dawn's daughter who uses the codename XS, which Nora uses in the show.

** ''Series/{{Crisis on Infinite Earths|2019}}'' reveals that, as in the comics, [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Clark]] and [[ComicBook/LoisLane Lois]] name their son [[Characters/SupermanJonathanSamuelKent Jonathan]], after Clark's deceased adopted father. After the Crisis, the couple has twins, with the other son being named Jordan, after Clark's deceased biological father, Jor-El. Fittingly, the one named after the alien father is the one who starts developing powers.

* The cat owned by ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is named "Snowball II" after a similar cat who died after being hit by a car. One episode was actually about Snowball II dying as a result of her being hit by another car, and being replaced by Snowballs III and IV, who both died as well (the former drowned, while the latter fell out of a window). The episode ends with Lisa coming upon a black cat that looked ''exactly'' like Snowball II and names it Snowball V, but then changes her mind and decides to call the cat Snowball II "to save money on a new dish." Principal Skinner witnesses the whole thing and comments that that's cheating, but after Lisa retorts, "I guess you're right, ''[[StatusQuoIsGod Principal Tamzarian]]''" he quickly gives in.

*** Literature/TheCasteelSeries has Luke Junior (named after his grandfather) and Annie Stonewall (named after the first Luke's mother; step-grandmother to Annie's mother Heaven.) Annie's name is lampshaded as Logan and Tony point out that this is a nickname, and try to suggest that Heaven name her Anne instead.

** In ''Literature/MySweetAudrina'', Audrina Adare is supposedly named after an elder sister who died. It turns out Audrina's family is lying to her; the "First Audrina" never existed.
** In the Literature/LandrySeries, Ruby names her twin sons Pierre and Jean, after her late father and ''his'' twin brother.
** Willow [=DeBeers=]'s daughter is named Hannah after Willow's mother Grace (since the name Hannah means "grace")
** In the Literature/DollangangerSeries, Catherine's eldest child is named Julian Janus Marquet, but he's familiarly known as Jory, after his dead father Julian and dead uncle Cory. At the end of the series, when his wife is due to give birth, he promises to name the baby either Catherine after his mother (who dies shortly afterwards), or Christopher after his late [[BrotherSisterIncest uncle/stepfather]].
*** Catherine's second son is Bartholomew Scott Winslow; Bart was the name of his father, who died while she was pregnant, and Scott was the name of the dead son of her second husband Paul.
** In the Literature/CutlerSeries, Dawn Cutler was named Eugenia at birth, after a sister of her step-grandmother's.
** Literature/TheCasteelSeries has Luke Junior (named after his grandfather) and Annie Stonewall (named after the first Luke's mother; step-grandmother to Annie's mother Heaven.) Annie's name is lampshaded as Logan and Tony point out that this is a nickname, and try to suggest that Heaven name her Anne instead.
*** Heaven herself is a downplayed example since she got her middle name Leigh from her deceased mother.
** Literature/{{Celeste}} and her daughter "Baby Celeste" in the Gemini series, though the elder Celeste does not die but is sent to a mental institution.

* At the end of ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', it is revealed that Jonathan and Mina named their son with the first names of the ''group''. Whether or not this is cause for justifiable parricide is left as an exercise for the reader. (But they ''called'' him Quincy, after the one who died.) In Creator/FredSaberhagen's ''[[Literature/TheDraculaTape The Holmes-Dracula File]]'', young Quincy also has a twin sister, named for Mina's friend Lucy. Which is both this trope, and a hint that Lucy Harker was born with some vampiric traits, as Lucy Westenra had been turned by the Count.

* In stories set in the alternate future of ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'', several of the Titans do this; Tempest's daughter is named Tula after his former lover, Nightwing's daughter is Mar'i after his mother Mary (but with Tamaranean spelling), and Flash's twins are Iris and Barry after his aunt and uncle.
* In the main DCU, Wally West's daughter is still named Iris, but his son is named after the Golden-Age Flash (although it's Jai not Jay) presumably because there was already a Dead Guy Junior for Barry. Funnily enough, neither Jay nor Barry is dead at the moment.