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An American expat living in Astana, Kazakhstan

Tag archive for ‘names’

  • Summitkhan and Asiada Sitting in a Tree

    You knew it would happen. First we had Sammitkhan. Now we have a baby named Aziada. Which is a much more beautiful name than Sammitkhan. Given the choice, I would vastly prefer to be called Aziada than Samit (although Samit isn’t too bad a name. Better than Bartholomew, for example, or Brooklyn). The father, who […]

  • Make of This What You Will

    A child born at the end of November was named Summit in honor of the OSCE summit. I had heard of a child named Summitkhan so I wonder if this is the same child or if there’s another one out there. Frankly, I would hate my parents (or in this case, my grandparents, since they’re […]