This is a text version of the slides I made to tell the story of my name.
Раиль: is it real?
a few words about my investigation.

How rare is my name?
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Had my parents known?
Had my parents known a lot of Rails before decided to give me this name?

AI? RE?
Artificial Intelligence
or
Speech–language pathology

My childhood
How did I feel about my name in the childhood?

St. Pete
How did my feelings change?

🦜  “So unique! So beautiful!”

🤡 I’m so unique! I’m so beautiful!

What does it mean?
Questions about my name.

The “meaning”
Etymology 1
From Middle English rail, rayl, *reȝel, *reȝol (found in reȝolsticke (“a ruler”)), partly from Old English regol (“a ruler, straight bar”) and partly from Old French reille; both from Latin regula (“rule, bar”), from regō (“to rule, to guide, to govern”); see regular.
Noun
rail (plural rails)
1. A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
2. The metal bar forming part of the track for a railroad.
3. A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation.
    We travelled to the seaside by rail.
    a small Scottish village not accessible by rail
    rail transport

{IMAGE: Screenshot of Google Translate web page. Translation from Russian to English: основопложник, основатель => founder, founder}

Like a railway station
choo-choo 😮‍💨😮‍
or
like Israel 🇮🇱

Tatar tele
Раил
{IMAGE: A postal stamp. The man is wearing a traditional tatar cap}

My great grandma
🦉
{IMAGE: Two screenshots of Duolingo App: Let's learn Arabic}

Rail in Arabic
رايل

Gabriel
ائيل
{IMAGE: An engraving. The God is surrounded by four angels.}

Googled it! Again!
Was born in Ulyanovsk?
Do I have something else in common with Lenin?

Dictionary
{IMAGE: Scans of the book. Name and History by Alim Gafurov.}

Name directory
{IMAGE: Scans of the book. Directory of names of peoples of the RSFSR}

Russian National Corpus and Tatar corpus
{IMAGE: Screenshot of the search results for the national corpus of the Russian language.}

Dig into Wikipedia
Rail Ismagilovich Kamalov
(Russian: Раиль Исмагилович Камалов)
(February 20, 1932 — March 24, 1989) 

– head of the working unit for growing sugar beets on the Frunze collective farm, Hero of Socialist Labor.

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Conclusions
founder
or
glory to lenin
or
archangels
or
?