| 100% | EPONYMOUS | 9 | Being the one something is named after |
| 66% | ATLAS | 5 | Titan after whom one of the oceans is named |
| 65% | MANHATTAN | 9 | Popular cocktail which is named after one of the boroughs of New York city |
| 62% | GEIGER | 6 | The radiation counter is named after this Hans |
| 60% | ORLEANS | 7 | French city the Big Easy is named after |
| 60% | POE | 3 | Poet whom the Edgar Award is named after |
| 60% | EPONYM | 6 | One for whom something is named |
| 60% | ELEMENT | 7 | In Primo Levi's "The Periodic Table," each chapter is named after one |
| 59% | MORPHEUS | 8 | Greek god whom the drug morphine was named after |
| 58% | OPRAH | 5 | The cable channel OWN is named after her |
| 58% | EPONYM | 6 | Person after whom something is named |
| 58% | LEY | 3 | Willy ___ (a crater on the Moon has been named after him) |
| 58% | IDLE | 4 | The Eric that minor planet 9620 is named after |
| 58% | AMERICA | 7 | The foremost yachting cup is named after this boat |
| 57% | GEN | 3 | 41-Down was named after one: Abbr. |
| 57% | REED | 4 | Walter, the major the hospital was named after |
| 57% | SAM | 3 | Houston after whom the Texas city is named |
| 57% | UTE | 3 | Tribe after which the 45th state is named |
| 57% | POE | 3 | Writer after whom the Edgar Award is named |
| 57% | HENRY | 5 | Hudson after whom the Hudson River is named |
| 57% | PERRY | 5 | Antoinette after whom the Tony Awards are named |
| 57% | EPONYMS | 7 | Ones after whom others are named |
| 56% | ROI | 3 | The last one was named Louis |
| 56% | ORKUT | 5 | Social networking site of the '00s that was named after a Google employee |
| 56% | LOTUS | 5 | The White ___ (series whose titular location is named after a flower) |
| 56% | EDWIN | 5 | Hubble who the Hubble Space Telescope was named after |
| 56% | YORK | 4 | British city after which the Big Apple is named |
| 56% | ALLAN | 5 | Edgar ___ Poe after whom the Edgar Award is named |
| 56% | VESPUCCI | 8 | Italian voyager after whom the New World was named |
| 55% | ISAAC | 5 | The Asimov that Japan's humanoid robot was named after in 2000 |