A few days ago I asked why someone called me "zeeb." The reason I ask is this: "zeeb" is a common truncation of my name...the other common one is "raz." But "zeeb" outnumbers "raz" by about 25:1. Additionally, "zeeb" is the default preference of many people who I know who don't know each other, both on the web and in my regular life, so it isn't pure memetics. Additionally, as for my name, "Razib," it is actually Ra
jib, the Bengali form of the name Rajeev/Rajiv. It became Ra
zib because of issues with regards to pronounciation with my kindergarten teacher. I thought this was an anomaly until I got on to the web ran into other people with the name Razib, most of them from Bangladesh (check Friendster for what I mean).
I don't know what to make of all of this. But I thought I'd make my curiosity on this issue clear.