[keitmo]

My mom was an OB/GYN nurse for several decades. She worked in Active Labor for many years with a nurse named Alice Stork.

This Stork did indeed deliver thousands of babies.

[samplatt]

An acquaintance of mine was a team manager for a government-welfare phone-support entity. The other two managers' names were D'eath and Bludd. My friend married a man named Paine.

So the phone-support teams were managed by Blood, Death, and Pain. It's one of the most wonderful matchups I've ever seen.

[flobosg]

Sounds like a case of nominative determinism!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism

[woolion]

Is this concept often mentioned in mainstream media? This is mentioned a lot around here. My hypothesis is that a "hn-bias" makes commenters more likely to mention it because they learned here that there is an explicit concept to arrange these funny coincidences, and moreover there is some quantitative work that has been done on the subject. But it could be a variant of frequency illusion/Baader-Meinhof phenomenon (what would be its name?).