Meet the British Columbians whose names match their lives

The idea of nominative determinism — that your name ends up matching what you do in your life — isn’t a new one, and a psychologist says the phenomenon has been observed in large-scale studies of entire countries’ census data.

Meet the British Columbians whose names match their lives
A composite of two white men and a white woman, all of whom are smiling.

The idea of nominative determinism — that your name ends up matching what you do in your life — isn’t a new one, and a psychologist says the phenomenon has been observed in large-scale studies of entire countries’ census data.