Person's name related to their profession
Anaptronym ,aptonym , oreuonym is apersonal name aptly or peculiarly suited to its owner (e.g. their occupation).[ 1] "euonym" (eu- +-onym ), dated to late 1800, is defined as "a name well suited to the person, place, or thing named".[ 2]
Gene Weingarten ofThe Washington Post inaptonym as anantonym for "aptonym".[ 3]
TheEncyclopædia Britannica Franklin P. Adams , who coined the word "aptronym" as ananagram ofpatronym [ 4] Oxford English Dictionary Funk & Wagnall’s dictionary in 1921, defined as "a surname indicative of an occupation: as, Glass, the glazier".[ 2] [ 5] Carl Jung wrote in his 1960 bookSynchronicity [ 6] [ 7]
In the 1966 bookWhat's in a Name? ,Paul Dickson , among other peculiar types of surnames, has a section on aptronyms which includes a list of aptronyms selected from his large collection. The latter originated from the one received from professor Lewis P. Lipsitt ofBrown University and further expanded with the help of Dickson's friends, mostly from newspapers and phone books. Some newspaper columnists collect aptronyms as well.[ 6]
Jules Angst , Swiss professor ofpsychiatry , who has published works aboutanxiety (angst )[ 8] Michael Ball , English footballer[ 9] Layne Beachley , Australian former world champion surfer[ 10] Alexander Graham Bell , developer of thetelephone [ 11] Bert "Tito" Beveridge, founder of beverage companyTito's Vodka [ 12] Ian Bishop ,Church of England bishop[ 13] Doctor Willard Bliss , physician who treated PresidentJames A. Garfield [ 14] Sara Blizzard ,meteorologist and television weather presenter for theBBC [ 8] Usain Bolt , Jamaican sprinter[ 15] [ 16] Gary Bowser , game console hacker sued by Nintendo, whoseSuper Mario villain is also namedBowser [ 17] Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain , neurologist[ 18] Rosalind Brewer , executive atStarbucks and former director atMolson Coors Brewing Company [ 19] [ 20] Rosalind Canter , BritishOlympic equestrienne (woman who rides horses professionally), winner of the2018 FEI World Equestrian Games [ 21] Christopher Coke and his fatherLester Coke , Jamaican drug lords andcocaine traffickers[ 22] Thomas Crapper , British sanitary engineer often erroneously referred to as the inventor of the flush toilet[ 9] [ 23] [ 24] Ed Currie , a world-record holdingchili pepper breeder[ 25] Mark De Man , Belgian football defender (marking an opposing player)[ 7] Helen DeWitt , comic novelist[ 26] David Dollar , American economist[ 27] [ 28] Carla Dove , American ornithologist who specializes inbird strikes [ 29] Josh Earnest , the thirdpress secretary for theObama administration [ 30] Norm Eisen , special council for ethics in the Obama administration, with a focus onnorms in government[ 31] Rich Fairbank , American billionaire and CEO of theCapital One bank, which holds the Fairbanking Mark for offering fair banking products[ 32] [ 33] Cecil Fielder andPrince Fielder , father-and-son baseball players (fielder )[ 34] Jeff Float , American swimmer[ 35] Bob Flowerdew , British gardener and TV/radio presenter[ 7] Amy Freeze , American meteorologist[ 36] Learned Hand , American judge, considered a "craftsman" of the law.[ 37] William Headline , formerWashington bureau chief forCNN [ 38] Sunny Hostin , American television host[ 39] John Hunter , Scottish hunter and writer[ 40] Selwyn Image , English artist and designer[ 41] Fielder Jones , baseball center fielder[ 42] Igor Judge , English judge andLord Chief Justice [ 43] [ 44] John Laws , English judge andLord Justice of Appeal [ 45] Jonatan Leandoer , Swedish rapper (known professionally asYung Lean ) and former drug addict who frequently consumed the opioid-based drinklean [ 46] Tom Lehrer , teacher ("Lehrer" is German for "teacher") of math courses at bothHarvard University andMIT , and later of math and the history of Americanmusical theater at theUniversity of California, Santa Cruz ; famous as a singer-songwriter of satirical songs, many of which are about academia[ 47] [ 48] Amy Lloyd, British neuroscientist who studiedamyloid plaques associated withAlzheimer's disease [ 49] [ 50] Michael Lord , British member of theHouse of Lords .[ 51] Richard and Mildred Loving , plaintiffs inLoving v. Virginia interracial marriage throughout the United States[ 52] George McGovern , Americanpolitician andsenator in thefederal government [ 53] [ 54] [ 55] Nicolae Militaru , Romanian military officer andMinister of National Defense [ 56] Chris Moneymaker , American poker player and2003 World Series of Poker champion[ 57] David W. Music , American composer of church music[ 58] Eugenius Outerbridge , inaugural chairman of thePort Authority of New York and New Jersey ; namesake of theOuterbridge Crossing , the outermost bridge betweenNew York (Staten Island ) andNew Jersey [ 59] Gabe Pressman , American journalist[ 60] Francine Prose , American novelist[ 61] Rich Ricci , American-British banker[ 16] Corona Rintawan , Indonesian physician who ledMuhammadiyah 's command center for theCOVID-19 pandemic [ 62] Bob Rock , Canadian music producer best known for his works with rock acts such asMetallica andAerosmith [ 63] Mat Sadler , English football manager who played for and now managesWalsall , nicknamed "The Saddlers"[ 64] [ 65] [ 66] Tennys Sandgren , American tennis player[ 67] Marilyn vos Savant , American columnist who has been cited for having the world's highest-recordedIQ (savant )[ 68] Toby Savin , English football goalkeeper (saving )[ 69] [ 70] Max Schreck , German actor known for portrayingCount Orlok in the 1922 horror filmNosferatu [ 71] [ 72] [ 73] Offer Shlomi , better known as Vince Offer, Israeli-American TV infomercial pitchman[ 74] Kayla Sims , American YouTuber and Twitch streamer, best known for playingThe Sims 4 [ 75] Daniel Snowman , British historian and author of book on polar explorations[ 76] Larry Speakes , former acting White House Press SecretaryScott Speed , American racecar driver who has raced in a variety of motorsport, includingFormula One andFormula E [ 77] [ 78] [ 79] Marina Stepanova , Russian hurdler[ 80] Dávid Strelec , Slovak football forward ("Strelec" is the Slovak word for "shooter" or "striker")[ 81] Eugène Terre'Blanche , South African white nationalist (Terre'Blanche translates to "white land" in French)[ 82] [ 83] [ 84] Juan Trippe , founder of Pan American Airways[ 85] George Francis Train , entrepreneur who was heavily involved in the construction of the eastern portion of thefirst transcontinental railroad across the United States[ 16] Donald Trump , United States president and businessman known for an emphasis on "winning" (trump card ).[ 86] [ 87] Katie Volynets , American tennis player[ 88] Jeremy Wade , British anglerAlexander Burns Wallace , creator of therule of nines , a system for estimating bodily surface area affected byburns Keith Weed , president of theRoyal Horticultural Society [ 89] Anthony Weiner , American politician involved insexting scandals[ 36] [ 90] Emily Wines , American wine professional and board chair of theCourt of Master Sommeliers [ 91] William Wordsworth , English poet and advocate for the extension ofBritish copyright law [ 92] [ 93] [ 9] Early Wynn , baseball pitcher, member of the300 win club [ 94] David Møller Wolfe , Norwegian footballer who plays forWolverhampton Wanderers (known as Wolves).[ 95] Tiger Woods , American professional golfer; awood is a type of golf club[ 9] Mary Yu , associate justice of theWashington Supreme Court who officiated the state's first same-sex marriage[ 96] Sergey Zimov , Russiangeophysicist who specializes inarctic andsubarctic ecology, foundedPleistocene Park to study the interconnectedness betweenclimate change ,permafrost , andreintroduced animals ;zim is the Slavic word for "winter"[ 97] [ 98] [ 99] Rob Banks, British police officer[ 100] Grant Balfour , baseball pitcher ("ball four")[ 101] Frank Beard , an American musician who, untilc. 2013 , was the only member of rock band ZZ Top without a beard[ 102] Don Black ,white supremacist [ 8] Peter Bowler ,cricketer (in fact, primarily abatsman )[ 8] Doug Bowser , president ofNintendo of America (Bowser is the main antagonist of Nintendo's flagship franchise,Super Mario [ 103] Samuel Foote , a British actor who lost a leg in a horseriding accident in 1766, and made jokes on stage about "Foote and leg, and leg and foot"[ 104] Claudio Gentile , Italian footballer known for his strength[ 105] [ 106] [ 107] Matt Gobush, spokesperson forAl Gore during his campaign for the2000 presidential election , which Gore eventually lost to rivalGeorge W. Bush [ 108] [ 109] Ciro Immobile , Italian footballer known for eluding defenders[ 110] Colleen Lawless , an American lawyer and judge[ 111] Neversink, a town in New York state that was submerged by theNeversink Reservoir in 1953[ 112] Danielle Outlaw , former Philadelphia Police Commissioner[ 113] Larry Playfair , ice hockey player known forfighting [ 114] Jaime Sin ,Catholic prelate ; upon being made acardinal in 1976, he gained the further inaptronymic title of "Cardinal Sin "[ 8] [ 100] Sam Sung,Apple Inc. employee.[ 115] Bob Walk , baseball pitcher[ 116] ^ Nuessel, Frank (1992).The Study of Names: A Guide to the Principles and Topics ISBN 9780313283567 Archived from the original on 18 March 2023. Retrieved18 March 2023 . ^a b Aptronym: Usage and Examples ,Merriam-Webster ^ Gene Weingarten (18 July 2006)."Chatological Humor* (UPDATED 7.21.06)" .The Washington Post Archived from the original on 4 September 2017. 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