Roksolana
Greek at root, the name means "woman from Ruthenia" and travels with Ukrainian families. Most Poles have never met a Roksolana: only a handful of girls get it each year, all of them born in the last few years.
Roksolana Pronunciation
Roksolana is pronounced rok-so-LAH-nah (/rɔksɔˈlana/).
What Roksolana means
Where Roksolana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Roksolana reaches Polish from Greek. The old geographers wrote of the Roxolani, a steppe people east of the Danube, and over time the name settled into a plain meaning: a woman from Ruthenia.
Its most famous bearer was born around 1505 in Rohatyn, in what is now western Ukraine. Taken into the Ottoman court, she rose to become Hürrem Sultan, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent. Europe knew her by the name that marked where she came from, Roxolana, the Ruthenian woman. That single life tied the name to Ukraine for good.
So Roksolana works less like a wish and more like a map. It points east, toward old Rus. A child who signs it on a form at the urząd today carries that geography in her four syllables.
The meaning stays near the surface, with no hidden virtue to decode. A woman from Ruthenia, kobieta z Rusi.
How many people are named Roksolana
1 in 14196 women in Poland is named Roksolana. 1,588 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #778 among female names.
Roksolana's popularity over time
4 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1135 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2020. Still the #778 name among living women, even as it slips to #1135 among newborns.
Where Roksolana is most popular
Roksolana is most popular in Łódź, 753% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lesser Poland (+376%).
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Łódź2 girls born+753%
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Lesser Poland2 girls born+376%
Roksolana as a middle name
Roksolana is a first name for 1,588 women in Poland and a middle name for another 10, a 99/1 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2469th, between Renarda (10) and Romy (10).
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2467
10Rea
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2468
10Renarda
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246910Roksolana
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2470
10Romy
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2471
10Rossana