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Kazakh names are typically unique planet-wide. There is a very, very low chance of there being another person with the same name. Chances of finding another per

by Aspos 2y ago

Kazakh names are typically unique planet-wide. There is a very, very low chance of there being another person with the same name. Chances of finding another person with the same name and the same year of birth are practically zero. Edit: Seems like this particular combination is not unique after all. Found quite a few people of the same name. Perhaps they chose a victim which can't be found trivially.

bloak 2y ago
Though the name Aidana is Kazakh, the pictures would be more plausible for a member of the Russian minority in Kazakhstan (15% of the population according to Wikipedia). The article doesn't reveal where those pictures were stolen from, does it? And the voice? Typical spam call centre voice ... Philippines?
- Aspos 2y ago
  Sounds clearly Russian to me. Russian spoken in Yoshkar-Ola I guess.
  - alecmg 2y ago
    nothing like Russian, South Asian maybe
- thaumasiotes 2y ago
  > The article doesn't reveal where those pictures were stolen from, does it? It says they're taken from the Instagram account of "a Russian personal trainer". I doubt the author is making an ethnic distinction between European Russians and Turkic Kazakhs, so the woman is probably identifiably located inside Russia.
thaumasiotes 2y ago
> Kazakh names are typically unique planet-wide. Really? What kind of structure do their names have? I think even cultures that used full-sentence names tended to have some conventional ones. And certain name ideas are very common cross-culturally, as witness Bogdan / Nathaniel / Theodore (and older Diodorus / Apollodorus / Herodotus / etc) / Dieudonné / Atallah... Going to something I know better, Chinese names can be unique, and I know someone who tells me her father specifically attempted to ensure that nobody shared her name, but I wouldn't go as far as saying that being unique is the typical case. Some names (小丽, 国强) have an attractive meaning and are used with identical spelling by large numbers of people; other names (Xīnyuè, Sījiā) show a lot of spelling variation while always being pronounced identically.
- Aspos 2y ago
  There are quite a few pre-Islamic taboos some of which persist to this day. For example, can't give a child a name of a living person parents know of. This of course includes extended family, friends and even acquaintances. This restriction alone enforces creative naming. Typically names consist of 1-5 elements which can be combined arbitrarily. There are literally thousands of such elements though. Last name often is a first name of an ancestor a few generations deep and it is likely to be unique too. So as a result first+last name combinations are quite unique. Urbanization is changing all this of course but some traditions are still strong. In my entire life I've met just 3 people with the same first name as mine.
  - thaumasiotes 2y ago
    > Typically names consist of 1-5 elements which can be combined arbitrarily. Out of curiosity, are those elements meaningful or just pure sounds?
    - Aspos 2y ago
      Yes, they are meaningful. For example: Adjective + some natural phenomena + some flower = girl name.

by Aspos 2y ago

bloak 2y ago

Though the name Aidana is Kazakh, the pictures would be more plausible for a member of the Russian minority in Kazakhstan (15% of the population according to Wikipedia). The article doesn't reveal where those pictures were stolen from, does it? And the voice? Typical spam call centre voice ... Philippines?

Aspos 2y ago
Sounds clearly Russian to me. Russian spoken in Yoshkar-Ola I guess.
- alecmg 2y ago
  nothing like Russian, South Asian maybe
thaumasiotes 2y ago
> The article doesn't reveal where those pictures were stolen from, does it? It says they're taken from the Instagram account of "a Russian personal trainer". I doubt the author is making an ethnic distinction between European Russians and Turkic Kazakhs, so the woman is probably identifiably located inside Russia.

thaumasiotes 2y ago

> Kazakh names are typically unique planet-wide. Really? What kind of structure do their names have? I think even cultures that used full-sentence names tended to have some conventional ones. And certain name ideas are very common cross-culturally, as witness Bogdan / Nathaniel / Theodore (and older Diodorus / Apollodorus / Herodotus / etc) / Dieudonné / Atallah... Going to something I know better, Chinese names can be unique, and I know someone who tells me her father specifically attempted to ensure that nobody shared her name, but I wouldn't go as far as saying that being unique is the typical case. Some names (小丽, 国强) have an attractive meaning and are used with identical spelling by large numbers of people; other names (Xīnyuè, Sījiā) show a lot of spelling variation while always being pronounced identically.

Aspos 2y ago
There are quite a few pre-Islamic taboos some of which persist to this day. For example, can't give a child a name of a living person parents know of. This of course includes extended family, friends and even acquaintances. This restriction alone enforces creative naming. Typically names consist of 1-5 elements which can be combined arbitrarily. There are literally thousands of such elements though. Last name often is a first name of an ancestor a few generations deep and it is likely to be unique too. So as a result first+last name combinations are quite unique. Urbanization is changing all this of course but some traditions are still strong. In my entire life I've met just 3 people with the same first name as mine.
- thaumasiotes 2y ago
  > Typically names consist of 1-5 elements which can be combined arbitrarily. Out of curiosity, are those elements meaningful or just pure sounds?
  - Aspos 2y ago
    Yes, they are meaningful. For example: Adjective + some natural phenomena + some flower = girl name.