Names that really suit (or don’t suit!) a person

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Have you met anyone whose name was particularly fitting for their character or job? Or the opposite?!

We had a physics teacher called Miss Motion -which seemed apt - and the local shop keeper growing up was called Mr Smiley, which definitely wasn’t - he was a real miserable bastard and all the kids were scared of him. I thought it was someone’s idea of an ironic joke for years but no, he really was just poorly named 😆

Anyone come across any other examples for some light hearted Saturday night entertainment?

Serious sensible intelligent 50 something women called silly names like Daisy or Poppy. There was an economist on the news called Daisy and it seemed so incongruous. Can’t bear those cutesy names for girls. They don’t stay 3 years old forever (runs for cover from all the mothers of Daisy/Honey type names)

I know a woman in her late 20's called Kylie. Stupidly, her name always makes me think of Kylie Minogue. The Kylie I know is an extremely large lady. Of course there is nothing wrong with being a large lady but I can't help feeling that the name is a lot to live up to and it must be difficult to be called Kylie and be a very big lady? People in work speak to her on the phone, then when they meet her there's a bit of surprise because she's not what they pictured. The name just conjures up an image of a teeny weeny person.

I love it when people's surname matches their job.

I have yet to meet anyone called Joy who is joyous!!

I worked alongside a fellow teacher whose name is Mr Wisdom.

I knew a nursery teacher whose name is Miss Talent.

Mr Wisdom was definitely well suited. Miss Talent ironically had absolutely none.

I absolutely agree...usually the complete opposite!

I’ve enjoyed:
Dinner lady Miss Cook
RE teacher Mr Joseph Eden

I know a flooding expert whose surname is Waters

I worked with a Mrs Sunshine, her personality definitely didn’t match her name.

I know a Dr Bones

Our old hairdresser was a miss (name) curly

my old geography teacher was a mr maps

i work with ‘kids’ (I’m old) and some of their names,you can see where mum and dad where going when they named a baby,but didn’t think that they would grow up-some of them are really cutesy and not ‘adult’ at all

I once worked with a lad who had a really unusual first and awfully weird middle name-poor lad really didn’t live up to it-he needed to be a strong personality and he really didnt have one
His siblings had ‘normal’ names-think along the lines of ‘Hercules’ and ‘merlin’ and his siblings where ‘Millie’ ‘Arron’ and ‘Joshua’ (not real names but along those lines)
I really felt for him

My dad knew someone called ‘Happy’
the poor kid took so much stick,she changed it to her middle name and fucked off abroad-her parents couldn’t have been any further than hippies
from what I could gather they had ‘posh’ jobs

my dp knows kids called chase and oak-he nicknamed them ‘choke’
mum was a hippy apparently

Argh just noticed my bloody thread had posted twice! Sorry 😬

loving these. Mr maps 🤣

Nominative determinism - when someone's job and surname match up.

I knew a mechanic with a surname Wheeler.

My sister's friend at school wanted to be a doctor. His surname was De'Ath. Probably best that he changed career path!

I did work experience as a teenager. It was in the local hospital. I usually spent my time on the ward talking to patients and changing beds but I was allowed to spend half a day in the pathology lab, where the pathologist in charge was called Dr Freezer.

I can't bear the name Daisy either - someone l work with's dd is called Daisy so l have to stop myself saying out loud that l think it is ridiculous for anyone other than a toddler to be called that!

I don't get the hate for Daisy and Poppy...they are just flower names, why are they worse than say Rose or Iris?
I know two siblings called Milly and Tilly (not real names but close enough) with a five year age gap....I think that is unoriginal and a bit cruel!

When I worked in a hospital around 2000, a flower name meant the patient was either born in the Edwardian era or a baby/ toddler.

Grace is a risky name if you don't have good genes. I've encountered a mix of Graces where the name either works well or not at all.

Bog I agree. See also Willow. Fine if you both have slim elegant kindly genes but Grace is so popular now both dds know Graces who are the direct opposite of all those things sadly. Risk you take with virtue names!

I mean, I don't have a horse in this particular race as my daughter is neither a Daisy or a Poppy (or a Grace for that matter)
I do just wonder why some flower names are okay for adults and others are viewed as 'cutesy'

Our music teacher at school was a Mrs Wailes 🤣

Dr Freezer 🥶😆

I know what you mean about the name Grace . I worked with one who was very far from being graceful as well as being very grumpy and rude. Always a risk giving a child a name with certain connotations

Know what you are saying - not sure why l feel like that about Daisy cos l don't mind Heather/Rose/Iris or even Poppy just Daisy l can't stand for an adult!

Love the name Grace but would not suit my clumsy daughter at all!

My dad once went for a colonoscopy and the dr who performed the procedure (no jokes!) was called Dr Mansoor Butt.
Very apt!

When I was a primary school teacher, a dentist used to come in to talk to the children about looking after their teeth. Her Christian name was Jean. Everytime she came into my classroom, I'd say, ' Hi, Jean !'
Made me chuckle.
A lovely lady!

I also worked with a Joy who was anything but.

I think it's the 'y' sound at the end that makes a name cutesy and twee. Rose is not twee, but Rosy is.

I know a very smiley Joy, she radiates happiness!