: What’s a good name for someone who lives up to their name? Like, century lives up to 100 years I’m writing a story about people called century and decade (decade is a ghost) and their

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The condition could loosley be called nominative determinism: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
If you want a made up word then thanatochrononomical seems to supply the right morphemes: "Death", "Time", "Name" from greek. "Thanatochrons" for short or perhaps TCNs or even corrupted over time to "Teeken" - up to you.
Alternativley Thanatonoms "Death names" maybe shortens to Thanoms.

As another possibility, you can look at the language native to that group you are talking about, what are their words for death, name, time?

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A term that describes itself, such as polysyllabic, is autological (see here for an amusing consequence of this concept).

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