What would be an English equivalent for the Mexican Spanish word tocayo? From what I found on the internet, there are two theories on the origin for tocayo: from the Latin phrase Ubi tu Caius, ibi ego Caia used in weeding ceremonies in ancient Rome, and from the nahuatl word tocaitl used to refer to someone with a name It's really obscure the origin for such popular word in our country, I haven't found use of it in
Is there a word for someone with the same name? Namesake has a meaning of "(roughly) the same name" "We have the same namesake" implies common ancestry in the name to me, for example if you were called "Galileo" and you met someone else in the street with that name then it would make sense if you were both named after the same original person