From InfoGalactic:
Aptronym - rarely-encountered neologisms for the concept of nominative determinism, used for a personal name aptly or peculiarly suited to its owner; essentially, when someone's name describes what they are or what they do.
The entry gives some examples:
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- Jules Angst, German professor of psychiatry, who has published works about anxiety
- Jack Armstrong, retired MLB pitcher
- Jeff Bagwell, retired MLB firstbaseman
- Colin Bass, British bassist in the rock band Camel
- Lance Bass, bass singer for American pop band NSYNC
- Sara Blizzard, meteorologist for the BBC
Add to this list - from Arab News - meet Dr. Corona Rintawan
Indonesia picks Dr. Corona to lead coronavirus response
JAKARTA: It seems he was born for the job. Emergency medicine expert Dr. Corona Rintawan is heading a task force set up by Indonesia’s second-largest Muslim organization, Muhammadiyah, to contain the spread of coronavirus.
“The Muhammadiyah COVID-19 Command Center (MCCC) is set up to consolidate all Muhammadiyah assets in an integrated effort to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus,” Rintawan told Arab News on Thursday.
Rintawan was appointed to lead the MCCC, an interdisciplinary task force with 13 experts educating the public on how to stop the spread of the virus.
His emergency experience includes being in medical teams responding to Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines in 2013 and the 2015 Nepal earthquake. He also took part in a humanitarian mission for the Rohingya in Myanmar in 2017.
“We are taking a proactive approach to assist the government in early diagnoses or early treatment for patients that show initial symptoms of infection,” Rintawan said.
His naming story is cute:
Asked about his name, the doctor said his parents would name their children in alphabetical order. Being the third, his name had to start with “c.”
“There was no such thing as baby name books at that time, so they decided to take my name from the Toyota Corona car, which was a popular model back in the 1970s, and as they also found that it means a crown, which symbolizes something good,” he said.
Right place, right time. Perfect name.
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