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This is a list of notable people from the Tajik ethnic group, an Eastern Iranic people native to modern day Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. This list also includes other closely associated ethnicities to Tajiks.
The official population count of the various ethnic groups in Africa is highly uncertain due to limited infrastructure to perform censuses, and due to rapid population growth. Some groups have alleged that there is deliberate misreporting in order to give selected ethnicities numerical superiority (as in the case of Nigeria's Hausa, Fulani ...
This category and its subcategories are restricted to people verified to be of Tajik heritage/descent/origin, according to reliable published sources. See Category:Tajikistani people for related people by nationality.
The name "Tajik" (Persian: تاجیک, romanized: tājīk, Tajik: тоҷик, romanized: tojik) did not always have the same meaning and did always serve as the self-designation of the present-day Tajik people. It started out as a name given by outsiders . The Middle Persian (or Sogdian or Parthian) word tāzīk ("Arab") is the commonly ...
For instance, the President of Tajikistan, Emomalii Rahmon, dropped the Russian suffix "-ov" from his surname and directed others to adopt Tajik names when registering births. [100] According to a government announcement in October 2009, approximately 4,000 Tajik nationals have dropped "ov" and "ev" from their surnames since the start of the year.
Sadriddin Ayni, National poet of Tajikistan, was a Tajik born in the Uzbek ruled Emirate of Bukhara The Tajiks of Uzbekistan are ethnic Tajiks residing in the Republic of Uzbekistan . They constitute about 5% of the total population, [ 1 ] though some estimates suggest the actual number is significantly higher. [ 2 ]
The names listed in the following tables, unless otherwise noted, represent the most current top 10 breakdowns of what newborn children are commonly being named in the various regions of the world. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.