I don’t put too much stock in this type of thing. He could have been named after an uncle or something, who was in turn named for his uncle etc. who was named after this guy from the past.
I have a problem with folks named “Jihad”.
—and while Tamerlane may not have been nice to enemies, neither was Joshua—check out what he did to the inhabitants of Jericho after the walls came tumblin’ down-—
All in the spirit of the original.