aptronym

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aptronym

- A name that fits a person's nature or occupation, like Jane House for a real estate agent.

See also related terms for occupation.

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Tom Stoppard named it an aptronym, a name aptly suited to its owner, the "cognomen syndrome" in his 1972 play Jumpers.

If your name is Beaumont-you must be a geologist! Well, sometimes ...: Funny Stories of the so-called "nominative determinism". Historical joyous Vignettes

(5) Rosa's surname, Lublin, is an aptronym that reminds the reader of her traumatic background.

"Prisoners gradually came to Buddhist positions": the presence of PTSD symptoms in Rosa in Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl

Because his epitaph bears the name Turin Turambar, as Tom Shippey claims, the combination of his birth-name and his aptronym form an amalgam of two distinct identities: "What these words [doom and fate] imply is in a sense illogical or self-contradictory.

Master of doom by doom mastered: heroism, fate, and death in the Children of Hurin

Names such as BOLT, NAIAD, and COURT that are especially suited to the profession or a characteristic of their owners are called aptronyms. Believe it or not, Daniel Draft is a barber, C.