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I think I would ask permission, yes. After all, it is them that you're setting out to honor, so I should think that asking their thoughts would be a logical course of action (especially if the name in question is a potentially touchy subject). If they did have objections, I'd definitely scrap the name altogether (unless we could compromise and use a variant or something of the name rather than the name outright). Again, it is that person you wish to honor; how would you be honoring that person if they didn't want to be "honored" in that way in the first place?