For example, I was doing research for a blog article and found a paper by a guy named Christian Messenger. That man was definitely destined for missionary work, but the paper was about football.
It can’t be real.
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Architect or porn star?
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I had a taxi driver once who’s last name was snel. Which is Dutch for fast or quick or speed.
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.
There is a doctor near us named Dr. Owi.
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: !nominativedeterminism@feddit.uk
Yes, I’m searching through this thread for stuff to post there
Kid at school named Miles Long.
I just saw him on pornhub.
I work in dairy company, once I was checking SAP for something and saw a name-surname “Olgun Erkek” (Mature Male in Turkish). We are receiving his raw milk, it is like porn name when you picture it like that.
There’s an HGTV person named Page Turner.
Lots of nominative determinism in this thread.
11 hours in and no Usain Bolt???
This is gonna sound fake, but I knew a butcher named Butch Pig. He was Butch before he was a butcher
I used to work in a call center and had a notably irate customer named Mrs. Bitschy. I tried pronouncing it like “Beeshy”, and she immediately snapped “It’s Bitchy! Got a problem with that!?” Oof.
I remember reading about a military guy, Staff Sergeant Max Fightmaster. I have no idea what he actually does (or did; guy’s probably retired by now) but if he hasn’t at least spent some time teaching martial arts he’s doing it wrong.
Edit: apparently he’s a computer technician and that’s even better somehow.
