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Originally Posted by Acajack
I suspect there are many in francophone Canada.
Two that I know of:
St-Lambert, a south shore suburb of Montreal, is named for Lambert Closse, a governor of Montreal during the French régime. There is a Saint Lambert that actually exists (I think he was Belgian) but the Quebec town is not named for him.
One of my parents is from a small Acadian town in the Maritimes that is "Saint-Something" and the given name is that of the town's founder. I don't even think there is a real saint by that name.
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Your Christian name is just a saint's name anyway. You're named after the saint, essentially (often because you were born on his/her "day"), so commemorating you by honouring "your" saint would have seemed quite a natural thing to do.