English

Noun

papponymy ‎(countable and uncountable, plural papponymies)

1. The practice, or an instance, of naming a grandson after his grandfather.
   • 1988, Ran Zadok, The Pre-Hellenistic Israelite Anthroponymy and Prosopography, ISBN 9068311204:

     Papponymy is not documented among Israelites. The only exception, Tahat son of 'Elyada' son of Tahat is doubtful and is not a papponymy sensu stricto.

   • 2006, Lester L. Grabbe, A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period, ISBN 0567216179:

     He tries to fill these gaps primarily by means of information from several sources: Papponymy (the naming of a grandson after a grandfather) was a common practice during this period.

   • 2014, Julia M. O'Brien, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies, ISBN 019983699X, page 197:

     Documented cases of maternal-line papponymy (a child named for a male ancestor on the maternal line) indicate that children born in marriages between women of Greek background (as determined by their fathers' Greek names) and men whose Babylonian names point to Babylonian identity were nearly as likely to bear Greek names as they were to have Babylonian names.