name dropper vs faker

name dropper and faker both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
name dropper	Yes	No	No	No
faker	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, faker is a hypernym of name dropper; that is, faker is a word with a broader meaning than name dropper:

Other hypernyms of name dropper include fake, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer.

name dropper (noun)	faker (noun)
someone who pretends that famous people are his/her friends	a person who makes deceitful pretenses