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When I was a kid, my parents were thinking about building a house. The name of the contractor who was helping them was named "Kari A Hammer." I might be spelling it wrong (I was eight), but that was his actual name.
I like to think he wanted to be a tattoo artist or something and hated carpentry, but was forced into it because of his name.
A dude named Sobriety Promise (both words were his first name). That guy's parents were assholes to name their kid that. Bro had to announce that his parents used to be drunk losers every time he said his name lmao. He went by his middle name and changed it as soon as he could. Poor guy. It's no wonder he became an alcoholic later ๐
My father went to high school with someone whose last name was Butts. His parents named him Harold and called him, and thus his friends called him, Harry. I always kind of thought it was a tall tale until my father showed me his high school yearbook one day And there was a picture of Harry Butts.
I always kind of wanted to meet this man and his wife and ask her if he lived up to his name.
There's a government spy project called Palantir. Kind of on the nose to LOTR nerds like me. For those who don't know, the palantirs were the crystal balls in LOTR that wizards could use to communicate or remote view what other palantirs could see.
Yes and the bastards won a contract with the NHS and they're fucking evil.
There's a meme image of a screenshot of a news broadcast featuring a fireman named Les McBurney.
This sort of thing apparently happens enough that it has a name: an aptronym.
happens enough that it has a name
I mean, anyone can stick a couple latin words together to name something, we've been doing it for centuries.
Went to high school with a girl who's dad was named Foster Goodwill
Harry Wolfe IV
Red Winged Blackbird
Went to high school with a girl named Amber Brown. And she was.
My daughter had to visit an allergist and his name was Dr. J. Doctor
That's some Cannonball Run 2 naming convention right there.
There's the newspaper columnist with the world's record highest IQ, Marilyn vos Savant. In French, you can read her name as "your (plural) scholar/scientist." When I was a kid, I was sure that it was a pen name, but it turns out it's actually her mother's maiden name.
I saw it as a kid and I was like:
These are called "aptroynms" and Wikipedia has a great list of them and also inaptroyms. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym
See also: Nominative Determinism. If I remember correctly, there was a subreddit about this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
Nominative determinism is the hypothesis that people tend to gravitate towards areas of work that fit their names. The term was first used in the magazine New Scientist in 1994, after the magazine's humorous "Feedback" column noted several studies carried out by researchers with remarkably fitting surnames. These included a book on polar explorations by Daniel Snowman and an article on urology by researchers named Splatt and Weedon. These and other examples led to light-hearted speculation that some sort of psychological effect was at work.
There's now a Lemmy community too: [email protected]
Yes, I'm searching through this thread for stuff to post there
There's an HGTV person named Page Turner.
Is she a drag queen? Does she perform with Marsha? You know, Marsha Dimes.
There is a doctor near us named Dr. Owi.
The original head of Teslas autopilot division is named Andrej Karpathy. car-path-y
Dr Healey. Nice.
I had a taxi driver once who's last name was snel. Which is Dutch for fast or quick or speed.
Gay Hitler. Worst part is he was born before those were offensive names or terms but lived long enough for them to get there meaning. Wasn't even meant to have the last name Hitler, It was a misspelling of Hiddler or something like that.
Accidental Hitler. Ouch.
Not sure if this is what you were going for, but I had a high school teacher named Mr. Student.
