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First name · Masculine

Ruslan

A Slavic name meaning "lion", carried in Russian and Ukrainian tradition. In Poland it stays uncommon, given only to boys and to just a handful each year, so meeting one sticks in the memory.

Ruslan Pronunciation

Ruslan is pronounced ROOS-lahn (/ˈruslan/).

Alive in 2025
22,170
Newborns 2025
9
National rank
#263
Meaning & Origin

What Ruslan means

Where Ruslan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Ruslan arrived in Russian and Ukrainian homes largely on the strength of one poem. Alexander Pushkin published "Ruslan and Lyudmila" in 1820, and its hero, a brave knight who rides to recover his stolen bride, gave the name a public face. Before that it circulated in Slavic lands as a borrowing, and the "lion" sense that clings to it, lew in Polish, points back to the Turkic arslan, which philologists often set behind the Slavic Ruslan.

The name travels without diminutives. A boy called Ruslan stays Ruslan on the class register and Ruslan at the urząd, with no shortened pet form to reach for.

In Poland it remains uncommon and reads as clearly eastern, a marker of Russian or Ukrainian roots. What it announces stays plain: a lion, the Turkic arslan turned Slavic.

How many

How many people are named Ruslan

1 in 963 men in Poland is named Ruslan. 22,170 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #263 among male names.

Living Ruslans · 2019 → 2025
22,170 +16,429 since 2019
+1,802 2020
+2,477 2021
+3,778 2022
+5,284 2023
+1,761 2024
+1,327 2025
Trend

Ruslan's popularity over time

9 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #751 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2019. Still the #263 name among living men, even as it slips to #751 among newborns.

9 newborn Ruslans in 2025
national rank #751 that year
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Regions

Where Ruslan is most popular

Ruslan is most popular in Masovian, 220% above the national average (11 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Pomeranian (+179%) and Łódź (+62%). It is least common in Greater Poland, 4% below average.

More common than average Less common than average
Middle name

Ruslan as a middle name

Ruslan is a first name for 22,170 men in Poland and a middle name for another 23, a 100/0 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1823rd, between Ron (23) and Sakari (23).

As a first name
22,170
As a middle name
23
first name · 100% middle name · 0%
Middle-name ranking · men

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