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An aptronym, aptonym, or euonym is a aptly or peculiarly suited to its owner (e.g. their occupation).

(1992). 9780313283567, Bloomsbury Academic. .
The word "euonym" ( + ), dated to late 1800, is defined as "a name well suited to the person, place, or thing named".

of The Washington Post coined the word inaptonym as an for "aptonym".

History
The Encyclopædia Britannica says that the term was allegedly invented by a columnist Franklin P. Adams, who coined the word "aptronym" as an of , to emphasize "apt". The Oxford English Dictionary reported that the word appeared in a Funk & Wagnall’s dictionary in 1921, defined as "a surname indicative of an occupation: as, Glass, the glazier". Aptronym: Usage and Examples, The Desk Standard Dictionary of the English Language, Funk & Wagnalls, 1921, p. 21 Psychologist wrote in his 1960 book Synchronicity that there was a "sometimes quite grotesque coincidence between a man's name and his peculiarities".

In the 1966 book What'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 of and further expanded with the help of Dickson's friends, mostly from newspapers and phone books. Some newspaper columnists collect aptronyms as well.

(1996). 9780877796138, Merriam-Webster. .

Notable examples
  • , Swiss professor of , who has published works about ()
  • Michael Ball, English footballer
  • , Australian former world champion surfer
  • Alexander Graham Bell, developer of the
  • Bert "Tito" Beveridge, founder of beverage company Tito's Vodka
  • Ian Bishop, Church of England bishop
  • Doctor Willard Bliss, physician who treated President James A. GarfieldBliss was named for an esteemed local physician, and so given the forename "Doctor", see (his given name was "Doctor")
  • , and television weather presenter for the
  • , Jamaican sprinter
  • , game console hacker sued by Nintendo, whose Super Mario villain is also named
  • Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain, neurologist
  • , executive at and former director at Molson Coors Brewing Company
  • , British Olympic (woman who rides horses professionally), winner of the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games
  • and his father , Jamaican drug lords and traffickers
  • , British sanitary engineer often erroneously referred to as the inventor of the flush toilet
    (2025). 9780195375572, Oxford University Press. .
  • , a world-record holding breeder
  • Mark De Man, Belgian football defender (marking an opposing player)
  • , comic novelist
  • , American economist
  • , American ornithologist who specializes in
  • , the third press secretary for the Obama administration
  • , special council for ethics in the Obama administration, with a focus on in government
  • , American billionaire and CEO of the bank, which holds the Fairbanking Mark for offering fair banking products
    (2017). 9781504376587, Balboa Press AU. .
  • and , father-and-son baseball players (fielder)
  • , American swimmer
  • , British gardener and TV/radio presenter
  • , American meteorologist
  • , American judge, considered a "craftsman" of the law.
  • , former Washington bureau chief for
  • , American television host
  • John Hunter, Scottish hunter and writer
  • , English artist and designer
  • , baseball center fielder
  • Igor Judge, English judge and Lord Chief Justice
  • John Laws, English judge and Lord Justice of Appeal
  • , Swedish rapper (known professionally as Yung Lean) and former drug addict who frequently consumed the opioid-based drink lean
  • , teacher ("Lehrer" is German for "teacher") of math courses at both Harvard University and MIT, and later of math and the history of American at the University of California, Santa Cruz; famous as a singer-songwriter of satirical songs, many of which are about academia
  • Amy Lloyd, British neuroscientist who studied associated with Alzheimer's disease
  • , British member of the House of Lords.
  • Richard and Mildred Loving, plaintiffs in Loving v. Virginia, which legalized interracial marriage throughout the United States
  • , American and senator in the federal government
  • , Romanian military officer and Minister of National Defense
    (1997). 9780520338937, University of California Press. .
  • , American poker player and 2003 World Series of Poker champion
  • David W. Music, American composer of church music
  • Eugenius Outerbridge, inaugural chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey; namesake of the Outerbridge Crossing, the outermost bridge between New York () and
  • , American journalist
  • , American novelist
    (2025). 9780814341148, Wayne State University Press.
  • , American-British banker
  • , Indonesian physician who led 's command center for the COVID-19 pandemic
  • , Canadian music producer best known for his works with rock acts such as and
  • , English football manager who played for and now manages Walsall, nicknamed "The Saddlers"
  • , American tennis player
  • Marilyn vos Savant, American columnist who has been cited for having the world's highest-recorded IQ ()
  • , English football goalkeeper (saving)
  • , German actor known for portraying in the 1922 horror film ("Schreck" translates to "fright" or "scare" in German)
  • , better known as Vince Offer, Israeli-American TV infomercial pitchman
  • , American YouTuber and Twitch streamer, best known for playing The Sims 4
  • , British historian and author of book on polar explorations
  • , former acting White House Press Secretary
  • , American racecar driver who has raced in a variety of motorsport, including and
  • , Russian hurdler
  • , Slovak football forward ("Strelec" is the Slovak word for "shooter" or "striker")
  • Eugène Terre'Blanche, South African white nationalist (Terre'Blanche translates to "white land" in French)
  • , founder of Pan American Airways
  • George Francis Train, entrepreneur who was heavily involved in the construction of the eastern portion of the first transcontinental railroad across the United States
  • , United States president and businessman known for an emphasis on "winning" (trump card).
  • , American tennis player
  • , British angler
  • Alexander Burns Wallace, creator of the rule of nines, a system for estimating bodily surface area affected by
  • , president of the Royal Horticultural Society
  • , American politician involved in scandals
  • , American wine professional and board chair of the Court of Master Sommeliers
  • William Wordsworth, English poet and advocate for the extension of British copyright law
  • , baseball pitcher, member of the 300 win club
    (2025). 9781936863310, Marion Street Press, LLC. .
  • David Møller Wolfe, Norwegian footballer who plays for Wolverhampton Wanderers (known as Wolves).
  • , American professional golfer; a wood is a type of golf club
  • , associate justice of the Washington Supreme Court who officiated the state's first same-sex marriage
  • , Russian who specializes in and ecology, founded to study the interconnectedness between , , and ; zim is the Slavic word for "winter"

Inaptonyms
  • Rob Banks, British police officer
  • , baseball pitcher ("ball four")
  • Frank Beard, an American musician who, until , was the only member of rock band without a beard
  • Don Black, white supremacist
  • Peter Bowler, (in fact, primarily a )
  • , president of Nintendo of America ( is the main antagonist of Nintendo's flagship franchise, )
  • , 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"
  • , Italian footballer known for his strength
  • Matt Gobush, spokesperson for during his campaign for the 2000 presidential election, which Gore eventually lost to rival George W. Bush
  • , Italian footballer known for eluding defenders
  • , an American lawyer and judge
  • Neversink, a town in New York state that was submerged by the Neversink Reservoir in 1953
  • , former Philadelphia Police Commissioner
  • , ice hockey player known for fighting
  • , ; upon being made a cardinal in 1976, he gained the further inaptronymic title of "Cardinal Sin"
  • , baseball pitcher

See also
  • Nominative determinism, the hypothesis that a person's name can have a significant role in determining key aspects of their job, profession or even character
  • Occupational surname

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