This article focuses on anthroponyms, which are based on totemistic and religious views that were used for a long time (especially in the ancient Turkic period). Many ancient Turkic-Kazakh personal names were born on the basis of paganism. These names were associated mainly with religious beliefs, as well as with totem and taboos and partly reflect the cultural traditions of the people.
So, in Kazakh naming, there is still a taboo on naming babies not only by the names of their parents, but also by the names of relatives on the male, paternal side, which is an echo of patriarchy, manifested in the observance of the laws of exogamous marriage. As in the traditions of other peoples, this prohibition is apparently connected with the idea that the repetition of a name damages its previous bearer.
The formation of the traditional culture of the Kazakhs took place against the background of the transition from pre-religious to religious consciousness. The norms of traditional Kazakh ethical culture are concentrated in a large number of oral prohibitions, taboos, customs, rituals that a person encounters in everyday life, and which are reflected in paremias and stable combinations.
In the Kazakh pagan nomenclature, totemism was one of the main forms of views, which served as the basis for the further development of the anthroponymic system of the Kazakhs.