Prawdopodobnie imię M'Choakumchild to aptronym
"aptronym" or "aptonym" (n.) = "A name that matches its owner's occupation or character, often in a humorous or ironic way." Cf. "aptronymic" or "aptonymic" (adj.).
e.g. Scrooge probably derives from the 18th century sense of the word "screw", which meant a miserly person
Wujek google niestety nie chcial mi znaleźć odpowiedzi na pytanie, co Dickens miał na myśli dajac bohaterowi takie imie. Wydaje mi się (podreslam, wydaje mi się) ze można rozbic to imie na „choke” i „child” i wyjdzie nam cos a'la „dławiące się dziecko”. Można to z kolei, w pewien połączyć z ta analiza osobowości pana M'Choakumchild:
in Book 1, chapter 2, the description of the rigors of M'Choakumchild's training and the long list of the subjects he has studied are not meant to impress the reader with his knowledge and wisdom. On the contrary, they are set out only to mock him, as the facetious tone suggests and as the last sentence explicitly states: "Ah, rather overdone, M'Choakumchild. If he had only learnt a little less, how infinitely better he might have taught much more!" The point is that M'Choakumchild may know a lot, but he has neither the wisdom nor the skill to know how to impart it to young minds.
Czyli M'Choakumchild jest jak dziecko ktore chcialo “wchlonac za duzo”. Ale to jest tylko moja interpretacja oparta na tym, ze Dickens aptronymów używał szalenie często a imie M'Choakumchild zdecydowanie wydaje się podejrzanie „zbite”
Jedyne co znalazłam w gogle to odbiegajaca od powyższej propozycji, interpretacja historyczna z z uniwersytetu Stanford:
Mr. M'Choakumchild
The teacher Mr. M'Choakumchild is essentially a briefly seen caricature, as indicated by his unrealistic name, but aspects of his name and personality refer to contemporary figures and philosophical debates. The Scottish "M'" (more familiarly rendered as "Mc") at the beginning of his name underscores the degree to which educational theory at the time, as well as Utilitarian thought, was derived from Scottish thinkers.
Moreover, Dickens may have had two Scotsmen�oth named McCulloch�n mind as loose models when he chose the name. The lesser-known, J.M.M. M'Culloch, was a headmaster at an Edinburgh school and wrote practical and dry textbooks. The second, J. R. McCulloch, was a well-known political economist and statistician. In the wake of the public dismay after the publication of Thomas Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population (1806), McCulloch "embarked on a lifelong campaign to improve the public image of political economy," according to Mary Poovey in A History of the Mdern Fact.