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I've just watched the mid-day NW weather forecast on BBC. The forecaster warning of ice and snow was called Sara Blizzard!

Excellent spot!! We're on the Fylde coast in Poulton, so should avoid the excesses😊

There’s a name for these.. they’re called “Aptronyms”.

The Wikipedia page lists Sarah Blizzard as a notable example…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym

Thanks jono
"Last word" in the New Scientist magazine collects them, but refers to them as "nominative determinism".
I once taught a boy called Robin Banks. Don't know whether he did, though!

There's a big trial in the USA at the moment. It's just recently been moved to a new jurisdiction because its notoriety might have affected the previous jury pool, but the original overseer was the Hon. Judge Judge!

Aptronyms are just coincidences, but nominative determinism holds that the name actually causes the outcome (nomen est omen), for a host of dubious-sounding reasons.

So "trump" means both "A good, trusty person" and "An act of breaking wind from the anus". Not sure what that says about nominative determinism. I wonder what my dentist, Fred Bicuspid, would say about all this.

Ruth Payne nursed Oswald’s children!

My favourite is a homophone. The horse which caused all the chaos in the 1967 Grand National which allowed Foinavon to go on to win was called Popham Down.