Surnames of Central Asia
β’ version: public β’ created: Mid-2024
Introduction
This post explores the most common surnames across the Central Asia through wordcloud visualisation. Region equals to Central Asia from "UN M49, Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use (Series M, No. 49)" β, post-Soviet Central Asia or, less-known "C5+1 Diplomatic Platform" β. Political boundaries shown according to their "de facto" status β. Data came from Forebears.io β.
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![Surnames of Central Asia - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan (raster, .jpeg | converted from .svg with vincerubinetti.github.io/svg-to-png/) [method 1]](./figures/Central-Asia_merged_preview.jpeg)
![Surnames of Central Asia - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan (raw vector, .svg)οΈ [method 1]](./figures/Central-Asia_merged.svg)
![Surnames of Central Asia - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan (true raster, .jpeg)οΈ [method 2]](./figures/Central-Asia_merged_tight_rasters_preview.jpeg)
You can read more about local naming customs at Familysearch.org's wiki β: Kazakhstan Naming Customs β, Kyrgyzstan Naming Customs β, Tajikistan Naming Customs β, Turkmenistan Naming Customs β, Uzbekistan Naming Customs β. Also, for some countries and regions you can find academic papers that explain how names were forming there.
Fig 2. Surnames of Central Asia, by country.
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Fig 3. Surnames of Kazakhstan, by admin region.
![[method 2] Surnames of of Kazakhstan, by admin region<br>(true raster, .jpeg)](./figures/surnames_central-asia_KAZ_1.png)
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