- If the name of a barber is Samuel Barber, it is an aptronym.
- There are many famous examples of aptonyms — the sprinter, Usain Bolt, for instance — and just this week I read about a surgeon called Professor Kneebone.
- Sigmund Freud based his theory of psychoanalysis on the "pleasure principle", and as "Freude" is German for "pleasure", his name could be said to be an aptronym.
- People think my family name, "Art", is made up because it's an aptonym.
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