Roksoliana
A Ukrainian name with the old Slavic sense "woman from Ruthenia". Only about 110 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one, and no girls were given it last year.
Roksoliana Pronunciation
Roksoliana is pronounced rok-sol-YAH-nah (/rɔksɔlˈjana/).
What Roksoliana means
Where Roksoliana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Roksoliana comes from Slavic roots and means "woman from Ruthenia," a region once called Rus. The name grew up in Ukrainian tradition, close to the more familiar Roksolana.
Its most famous bearer was Roxolana, the sixteenth-century woman from Rohatyn who rose to power in the Ottoman court as the wife of Suleiman the Magnificent. Historians link her name to the Roxolani, a Sarmatian people, and to the sense of a woman coming from the Ruthenian lands. She was born Anastasia Lisowska, and the name Roksolana marked her origin more than her given name.
Roksoliana is the softer, fuller form. Read it on a class register and it points east, back toward the medieval Rus.
The meaning stays plain. A woman from Ruthenia, named for the land she belongs to.
How many people are named Roksoliana
1 in 203098 women in Poland is named Roksoliana. 111 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3246 among female names.
Roksoliana as a middle name
Roksoliana is a first name for 111 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 98/2 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 6635th, between Robertina (2) and Romanina (2).
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