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Words that come from a real person's name

Name a word that comes from a real person's name. Hopdown accepts 482 answers here. Common answers keep your bunny near the surface; rare ones dig deeper. An ordinary word, unit, food, garment, disease or term that is named after a real person, such as sandwich, boycott, cardigan, guillotine or nicotine.

Most common answers

• SandwichExtremely common
• BoycottExtremely common
• CardiganExtremely common
• GuillotineExtremely common
• NicotineExtremely common
• DieselCommon
• SaxophoneCommon
• BrailleUncommon
• PilatesUncommon
• KegelUncommon
• Molotov CocktailUncommon
• Bowie KnifeUncommon
• PasteurizeUncommon
• MesmerizeUncommon
• Gatling GunUncommon

Rare answers

• DavenportRare
• RutherfordiumRare
• RemingtonRare
• Raynaud'sRare
• Golgi ApparatusRare
• GrevilleaRare
• Steak DianeRare
• Melba ToastVery rare
• GuinnessVery rare
• SpencerVery rare
• Mercator ProjectionVery rare
• Coriolis EffectVery rare
• LeninistVery rare
• ConfucianVery rare
• JoyceanVery rare

Deep cuts

The answers almost nobody gives.

• AudubonDeep cut
• Darwin's FinchDeep cut
• Dall SheepDeep cut
• Halley's CometDeep cut
• Roche LimitDeep cut
• Klein BottleDeep cut
• Turing MachineDeep cut
• RichterDeep cut
• Likert ScaleDeep cut
• BohrDeep cut

Plus 442 more answers you'll have to find yourself.