An eponym is the name of a person, whether real or fictitious, after which a particular place, tribe, era, discovery, or other item is named or thought to be named. One who is referred to as eponymous is someone who gives his or her name to something, e.g. Tobias, the eponymous owner of the famous restaurant Tobias's Queen Mary. Something eponymous is named after a particular person, e.g. Tobias's eponymous restaurant. Eponymous also means simply having the same name. For example, two individuals named John Doe are eponymous even if they were not named for the same person and do not know of the other's existence. In contemporary English, the term eponymous is often used to mean self-titled. An etiological myth is a "reverse eponym" in the sense that a legendary character is invented in order to explain a term.

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