More strange names

Nominative Determinism:

• Gary Plummer the Plumber

Nominative Determinism: We hope not.

• Surname: Belcher. Here's a website proudly stating that Belcher means "good cheer." Hey, whatever makes you happy.
• Surname: Fink. As in Stephen Fink of Fink Inc.
• Surname: Kostic. See the Kostic Family Site. My family was caustic, too, we just spelled it differently.
• Surname: Mulder. Sounds like moulder (verb: to rot and decay)

Nominative Onomatopoeia 

• Surname: Pitui. How do you pronounce that?

Lost in translation. These Vietnamese given names don't translate well into English:

• Sinh (boy)
• Dung (boy or girl)
• Bich (girl)
• Hung (boy or girl)
• Hang (girl)
• Phuc (boy or girl)

Bad surnames:

• Ciccocioppo. It looks like they were limited to the number of letters they had to work with, so they made the name really long to compensate for this shortcoming. It's the surname version of a comb-over.
• Mudd. Remember when your mom said, "Get in here right now, or your  name is Mud!"
• Lajiness. Change just one letter, and you have Laziness. That's not going to look good on a job application.

Isn't it strange how your name can influence who you become?

It's called nominative determinism, and here are a few I've come across lately:

• Dr. Peters is a urologist.
• Christopher Coke is a recently-arrested drug kingpin.
• Math professor Barbara Rademacher was named after St. Barbara, the patron saint of mathematicians.
• Dr. Federico Doctor specializes in Family Practice.

Here are some names for which I hope nominative determinism does not apply:

• Unfortunate surname: Slutsky
• Surname that makes you feel like a nobody: Noone
• A hurried surname: Hastie
• This surname might be hard to live up to: Slim