Do you think people can ‘look like’ their names?

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And if so, do you or your dc look like your names?

This evening my DS (6) started an after school activity, and the leader constantly kept calling him by the wrong name, even after DS and me and even others around kept correcting her. To make it more odd The name she kept calling him was not even remotely similar at all to his name!

My DS has a name which is similar to Ryan (don’t want to say to be too outing) but she kept calling him Milo!
At the end of the session she came up to me and was like Oh (wrong name) did really well today didn’t he, see you next week (wrong name)!

I corrected her and asked her why she kept thinking his name was that other name, and she said, oh, he doesn’t look like a Ryan, he just looks like a Milo. And that was that

When I told DH this evening though, he seemed to agree and said that some names have certain ‘faces’ attached to them and can be strange when that’s not the ‘face’ the person has. He gave the example, that Lee’s have light hair - I reminded him that the two Lees we know both have dark hair ...he gave another example that Ellie’s have short dark hair, dark eyes, - I reminded him that just because his sister is called Ellie and looks like that there are thousands of Ellie’s who don’t! I work with a woman who has the same name as me, and we are totally completely different in looks - like even different ethnicities!

So is this actually a thing? Or is my DH as barking mad as the lady at the club today?

I was once served in a pub by a man who was the most Dave-looking man I’ve ever seen. I checked the receipt afterwards and sure enough, he was called Dave. When my husband met me a while later, I asked him to guess this man’s name and without missing a beat, he suggested Dave. I know it’s a very common name, but still.

I frequently get called by another name that sounds nothing like mine. Always the same name, in all sorts of unrelated contexts. Let’s say my name is Kylie but I constantly get called Anna. I can only conclude I look like an Anna, but I don’t think I do.