The word aptronym, also sometimes occurring as aptonym, is a blend of the adjective apt (from Latin via Middle English, meaning ‘exactly suitable, or appropriate’) and the affix -(r)onym (from the Greek ‘noma’ meaning ‘name’. Compare pseudonym, eponym, etc.). Aptronym was allegedly coined in the 1930s by American newspaper columnist Franklin P. Adams.

The word aptronym, also sometimes occurring as aptonym, is a blend of the adjective apt (from Latin via Middle English, meaning ‘exactly suitable, or appropriate’) and the affix -(r)onym (from the Greek ‘noma’ meaning ‘name’. Compare pseudonym, eponym, etc.). Aptronym was allegedly coined in the 1930s by American newspaper columnist Franklin P. Adams.