I think your perspective underestimates the political or nationalistic aspects of naming things. Take the "Mach number" as an example. It is named after Ernst

I think your perspective underestimates the political or nationalistic aspects of naming things. Take the "Mach number" as an example. It is named after Ernst Mach by aerodynamics expert Jakob Ackeret, but it was Christian Doppler who first came up with the number in his research about the Doppler effect. The issue is that for a while people in different countries called the Mach number something different depending on what country there were from. The Soviet Russians did not initially call it the "Mach number" due to Lenin's criticism of Mach's (unrelated) philosophical work. Some Soviet Russians called it the "Mayevsky number" after a Russian general who did related artillery work that used the concept, but eventually they called it the Mach number. Similarly, some French engineers called it the "Sarrau number" or "Moisson number" for a while before the term "Mach number" stuck. The British sometimes called it "specific speed", which to me is even more confusing, but they also switched to "Mach number" eventually. My point is that names can be controversial, depending on what perspective you are coming from. Some people might call something a different name just to make it align with their worldview a little better.