Be it feet, food, or football, some people have a fetish, or an irrational devotion to a thing or activity. Not just names of people, but names of corporations, animals, and apples. There are instances, where people's names and their occupations strike up either irony or hilarity, called aptronyms . Lt. D.C. Current, member of the electrical sciences department at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Eponyms are words from names that refer to people and places.
The bikini bathing suit was introduced at a fashion show and named after the atomic explosion which took place on the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. The Englishman who developed the modern flush toilet. There are first names that have come and gone like fashions. The names Harriet and Harvey, for example, have become so unfashionable in the media that groups have formed to combat the bad stereotyping of these names, which typically feature nerdy people. There are also theories about names.