| 100% | ELI | 3 | Whitney after whom Whitneyville, Conn., is named |
| 52% | EPONYM | 6 | Person after whom a discovery is named |
| 52% | ERNEST | 6 | Physicist Rutherford after whom rutherfordium is named |
| 52% | ALDRIN | 6 | Astronaut after whom Buzz Lightyear was named |
| 52% | PARTON | 6 | Performer after whom a clone was named |
| 52% | ROOSEVELT | 9 | President after whom teddy bears are named |
| 50% | EPONYM | 6 | Person after whom something is named |
| 50% | EPONYMS | 7 | People after whom things are named |
| 50% | AMELIA | 6 | Bloomer after whom bloomers are named |
| 50% | ELIHU | 5 | Yale after whom Yale was named |
| 50% | EPONYMS | 7 | Ones after whom others are named |
| 49% | SAM | 3 | Houston after whom the Texas city is named |
| 49% | EPONYMOUS | 9 | Individual after whom a literary work is named |
| 49% | POE | 3 | Writer after whom the Edgar Award is named |
| 49% | UTE | 3 | People after whom a US state is named |
| 49% | PIMA | 4 | People after whom an Arizona county is named |
| 49% | ERIE | 4 | People after whom a Great Lake is named |
| 49% | INOUYE | 6 | Senator after whom Honolulu's airport is named |
| 49% | UTE | 3 | Tribe after whom a US state is named |
| 49% | EBBETS | 6 | Charles after whom a sports field was named |
| 49% | PERRY | 5 | Antoinette after whom the Tony Awards are named |
| 48% | DESCARTES | 9 | René, after whom Cartesian coordinates are named |
| 48% | AMELIA | 6 | English princess after whom a Virginia county is named |
| 48% | MORSE | 5 | Inventor after whom a Yale residential college is named |
| 48% | VINCE | 5 | Lombardi after whom the Super Bowl trophy is named |
| 48% | RIPLEY | 6 | One after whom a Times Square museum is named |
| 48% | VOLTA | 5 | Italian scientist after whom an electrical unit is named |
| 48% | AMPERE | 6 | French physicist after whom an electric unit is named |
| 48% | ATLAS | 5 | Titan after whom one of the oceans is named |
| 48% | SIMON | 5 | Playwright Neil after whom a Broadway theater is named |