同どう名めい異い人じん

noun

namesake; person with the same name

Refers to a different person who happens to share the same name. Often used to clarify that two people are not the same individual despite having identical names.

• 彼かれは私わたしの同どう名めい異い人じんで、親しん戚せきではない。

  He is my namesake, not a relative.

• その作さっ家かと同どう名めい異い人じんの別べつ人じんが逮たい捕ほされた。

  A different person with the same name as the writer was arrested.