aptonymy en · NOUN
Etymology
From aptonym + -y.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The state of being an aptonym.
Now, I don't know whether this is an example of nominative determinism – a phrase coined by the New Scientist to describe the phenomenon of one's name determining one's career – or aptonymy, the more coincidental occurrence of one's name being particularly fitting for one's personality, but I came across several such examples in the birding world.
2009, Alex Horne, Birdwatchingwatching: One Year, Two Men, Three Rules, Ten Thousand Birds, →ISBN:
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(uncountable) The study of aptonyms.
The aptonym has become nowadays the study object of the science called aptonymy.
2007, Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai: Philologia - Issues 1-3, page 237:
Translations (1)
fr aptonymie (An aptonym situation)