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Perhaps the concept of nominative determinism[0], or (more generally) the saying from Latin, "nomen est omen"[1].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nomen_est_omen

"Nominative determinism" is when there are reasons to suppose that the profession was inspired by the name. 'Aptronym' is a term for the expression "name checks".

What's the opposite -- where someone has an unfortunate name for their industry? I know of a developer with the last name Null.

Inaptronym: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym#Inaptronyms

No idea, but my zoology professor was called Prof. Elepfandt.

Andreas Elepfandt? That is amazing. What are his thoughts on elephants?

The library investigator's name is actually Bookman?

'Aptronym'. Edit: it should actually be 'aptonym', I do not know where that 'r' came from.

It's called nominative determinism

Thanks this is what I was looking for

My last name is Colle so maybe I should start a glue company

Previously on HN: Things Unexpectedly Named After People

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23888725