sometimes you'll be at an event where there are weirdly a lot of people who share a specific name and at that name was "matt." i have no explanation for this whatsoever but my god were there a lot of matts
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aww well that's sweet
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oh great question! peak matthew was apparently 1980-1990 which checks out, the matts i met were all in their 30s i think. no idea why. sometimes these things correlate w/ a popular TV / movie character or actor but i have no guesses who it might've been
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my name, meanwhile, is almost totally unique; the only other qiaochu i've ever met was, bizarrely enough, also a qiaochu yuan and also a math grad student at UC berkeley; she works at facebook now and i periodically get recruitment emails intended for her
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Two stupid questions. Do you have your surname listed first or last?
And is the first name a unisex name? It's it very rare?
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I've deduced that Yuan is your last name because that seems quite common. Still have the second question.
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it's pretty rare afaict, i actually have no idea whether it's unisex or not. it's possible the other qiaochu uses different characters, i never checked
Hello from Southeast Asia!
As someone currently studying Chinese names (as a hobby), and with a Chinese name that 3 other classmates in high school shared as well, here’s a small contribution:
There are many Chinese characters that have the same English transliteration.
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Qiao can be 桥，巧，翘，侨，敲
Chu can be 出，处，初，除，触
And so on.
Generally there are “feminine” characters chosen for girls’ names and more “masculine” characters for boys’ names.
An example would be 桥 (bridge) for a guy and 巧 (graceful) for a girl.
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