Jobs reflecting names (nominative determinism, or aptonyms)

Do you know what an "Aptonym" is? I didn't until I read this article on the blog A Consuming Experience. Here's a brief excerpt:

Jobs reflecting names (nominative determinism, or aptonyms)

Wednesday, February 16, 2005

New Scientist magazine coined the terms "nominative determinism" or "aptonyms" to describe the phenomenon of people whose names reflect their jobs - or rather, who end up working in areas that reflect their names (hence the "determinism"!).

An example might be a plumber called Pipe. Real life instances abound.

A great one recently included in New Scientist's 12 February 2005 Feedback section: the noise and vibrations engineer for the Queensland Electricity Commission, Australia used to be someone called Ron Rumble.