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Re: Inara
I'm not sure whether Inara is used in Arabic, but it has bearers in Pakistan on LinkedIn (125 people with the name Inara and 41 with the name Inaara), so it's possibly an Urdu name:
https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?firstName=Inara&geoUrn=%5B%22101022442%22%5D
https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?firstName=Inaara&geoUrn=%5B%22101022442%22%5Dİnarə is the Azerbaijani version of Inaara or Inara (2), which means that Inara (1) and Inara (2) are, in a roundabout way, the same name.It's probably not a Russian name though, as many of the people with the name Inara or Инара in Russia on LinkedIn seem to have Turkic surnames. Инара seems to be used in Russian only as a transcription of foreign names, like İnarə:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Гулиева,_Инара_Александровна (compare the Russian and Azerbaijani version)
Or Ināra:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Слуцка,_ИнараI would guess that the Kazakh Inara (5) is indeed the same name as Inara (1) or Inara (2). I have no proof of that though.This is not really related, but I found that Kazakh Wikipedia has a few lists of names used in Kazakhstan, like this one:
https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Қазақстан_қазақтарының_әйел_есімдерінің_тізімі (female names of Kazakhs in Kazakhstan; scroll down to the template to see links to other lists)
I guess those could be useful to someone.
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Is it safe to say that Inara/Inaara is used in Urdu (Rare)? And I'd merge Inara (1) and Inara (5) due to proximity.However, Forebears (https://forebears.io/x/forenames/inara), lists more than 1,500 bearers in Russia, and Russian Wiktionary says it's a name used in Russian (https://ru.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0).By the way, the Kazakh Wikipedia source is very useful, thank you! Inara (Инара) is listed as the 726th most common feminine name in Kazakhstan, with 1,165 bearers.
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Most of the bearers in Russia according to forebears, are in the Altay Kray. The rest are mostly in the Caucasian and Turkic regions of Russia (Dagestan, Tatarstan, Chechnya, Mordovia, Crimea, etc). Generally if you see this, it's not a Russian name and is just used by ethnic minorities in Russia.The Russian Wiktionary doesn't say it's a a Russian name, just that it's a name.Inara isn't a Russian name.

This message was edited 11/25/2024, 4:06 PM

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I see, thanks a lot! I've removed the Russian usage but kept the Altai one, since it's most common in that area.
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Thanks for fixing it!
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