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> The principle was first published by Walter Rotman and R. F. Turner in 1963

Astonishing nominative determinism there

Tito Beveridge creator of Tito Vodka, Ed Currie creator of the Carolina Reaper and Pepper X, Keith Weed the president of Britain’s Royal Horticultural Society, Usain Bolt one of the quickest people in the world, Thomas Crapper - commonly but incorrectly attributed with the invention of the modern toilet - founder of Crapper & Co plumbing company, meteorologist Sarah Blizzard, LEO Rob Banks, Donna/Mike/Bobbie Singer all singers with no relation.

I myself have a CTO of a plumbing company in my family from Flushing MI, but that's ever so slightly different.

These are called aptonyms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym?useskin=vector

or nominative determinism

I found this one truly shocking!

Amy Lloyd, British neuroscientist who studied amyloid plaques associated with Alzheimer's disease[0]

[0] https://www.dundee.ac.uk/people/amy-lloyd

I think nominative determinism has it backwards: people are actually nudged into careers which fit their names as whoever is on the receiving end of their services automatically has a more positive sentiment if they notice the name fits.

I experienced this myself as my first name was rare in my generation and normally found in history books or literary classics so I was perceived through that lens.

That's what I understand to be the usual interpretation of nominative determinism.

Some studies have shown statistically significant effects from having aptonyms. More than the expected number of dentists named Payne, etc.

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