History ADogNamedDog / RealLIfe

* A [[StockForeignName common boy's name in France]] is François, which just means "Frenchman". Subverted if you happen to be named "Francis", "Francisco", or "Frank" (which are the equivalents of "François" in English, Spanish, and German respectively).

* Any boy with the name of Ben or it's derivatives such as Benjamin is this, as "Ben" is a Semitic word that means "son". Modern Hebrew and Arabic still utilize Ben or the alternate pronunciation and anglicization of "Bin" in names, but as a patronymic last name to indicate which family the boy is a son of, so "Ahmed bin Ali" would mean "Ahmed son of Ali" or "Levi ben Gershon" would mean "Levi, son of Gershon." Naming a boy Ben as is common in English thus means he's a "Son named Son." Naming a girl "Bat" or "Bint" would be the equivalent "Daughter named Daughter", but this is uncommon if non existent as no language seems to have taken these words as a first name.

* In 1959, the communist government of Bulgaria made the decision to build a large beach resort upon the sunny Black Sea coastline. They called it "Sunny Beach". It bears the same name to this day.
* While leader of the British Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn MP had a pet cat named "El Gato". This is, of course, Spanish for "The Cat".

* The female actress Mädchen Amick, whose given name is the German word for "girl".

*** Technically, they never did. Tokyo was never designated a capital city ''de jure'' (and even the modern statutes notably avoid explicitly naming it as such), and simply became one ''de facto'' when the Imperial court moved there. The Emperor's enthronization, for example, is still being held in Kyoto.

* The neighboring Spanish islands of Mallorca and Menorca got their names from the Latin for "bigger one" and "smaller one". Because Majllorca is bigger and Menorca is smaller.

* The neighboring Spanish islands of Majorca and Menorca got their names from the Latin for "bigger one" and "smaller one". Because Majorca is bigger and Menorca is smaller.

* The ancient Romans combined this trope with misogyny [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_conventions_for_women_in_ancient_Rome when naming their daughters]]. If your family's name was Julius, your son would get three fancy names like Gaius Julius Caesar. Your daughter would only get the feminine form of the family name--"Julia". If you had more than one daughter they'd get numbers: Julia Primera, Julia Secunda..."Girl Child #1, Girl Child #2"....

** From May 6, 1998 to March 20, 2019, Nur-Sultan, the capital city of UsefulNotes/{{Kazakhstan}}, was named Astana, meaning "capital city" in Kazakh.

* A [[StockForeignNames common boy's name in France]] is François, which just means "Frenchman". Subverted if you happen to be named "Francis", "Francisco", or "Frank" (which are the equivalents of "François" in English, Spanish, and German respectively).

* "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_(given_name) Christian]]" is a relatively common name, that originated in the Middle Ages as a name for Christians. There are even a few Christian saints with the name (like Christian of Clogher and Christian of Cologne), as well as ten different Danish monarchs. Although it isn't impossible to find [[IronicName Atheists named Christian]].

* "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_(given_name) Christian]]" is a relatively common name, that originated in the Middle Ages as a name for Christians. There are even a few Christian saints with the name (like Christian of Clogher and Christian of Cologne), as well as ten different Danish monarchs.
** Although it isn't impossible to find [[IronicName Atheists named Christian]].
*** Or a Pagan, like Norwegian [[BlackMetal Black Metalist]] [[Music/{{Burzum}} Varg Grishnak/Louis Cachet]], whose birth name was Kristian Vikernes.

* After deciding to change its name from the Washington Redskins, Washington DC's football team is now named "Washington Football Team".

** They weren’t much better with their sons; while there sometimes was more variation, many families did the same thing with boys as with girls, keeping two of the three names and using the number for the first—e.g. Primus Julius Caesar, Secundus Julius, Tertius Julius Caesar, etc.

** UsefulNotes/{{Kyoto}}, UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}'s thousand-year-long capital, was named after an obsolete word for "capital city" (the modern Japanese word is ''shuto'', incidentally a cognate of ''sudo'' above). However, it did become an ArtifactTitle when Japan moved its capital from there to UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}}.

* There was also a shopping mall called ''The Mall'' in Kuala Lumpur, UsefulNotes/{{Malaysia}}. It has since changed its name to ''Putra Place'' when a new management took over though.
** On a similar note, there’s a shopping mall in Britain called “The Mall.” It’s just north of [[ UsefulNotes/TheWestCountry Bristol,]] though sometimes it’s called “The Mall, Cribbs Causeway,” after the area it’s in, and locals will sometimes shorten it down to “Cribbs,” instead.

** On a similar note, there’s a shopping mall in Britain called “The Mall.” It’s just north of Bristol, though sometimes it’s called “The Mall, Cribbs Causeway,” after the area it’s in, and locals will sometimes call it “Cribbs,” instead.

** The (apocryphal) place name "Torpenhow Hill" translates as "Hill-hill-hill Hill", with ''tor'', ''pen'' and ''how'' all meaning "hill" in different languages.

*** Or a Pagan, like Norwegian [[BlackMetal Black Metalist]] [[Music/{{Burzum}} Varg Grishnak/Lois Cachet]], whose birth name was Kristian Vikernes.