Ruzanna
The name traces back to "rose". Only about 128 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one, and no girl was given the name last year.
Ruzanna Pronunciation
Ruzanna is pronounced roo-ZAHN-nah (/ruˈzanna/).
What Ruzanna means
Where Ruzanna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ruzanna comes out of Armenian, where it grew from the shorter name Ruzan. Both are read as "rose". The rose-root runs across a wide region, through Persian and Russian and Armenian speech, and Ruzanna sits at the long end of that family. In the Armenian alphabet it stands as Ռուզաննա.
The name carried a real woman before it spread. In 1882 the writer Muratsan built a historical play around Ruzan, an Armenian princess of the thirteenth century. His Ruzan holds to her faith and her people under pressure to marry outside them. The play kept the name alive for Armenian readers.
For a Polish family the meaning lands plainly. Ruzanna means róża. On a class register it looks foreign beside Zofia or Maria, though its sense is one every Polish child knows. Strip it back and you reach one word: róża.
How many people are named Ruzanna
1 in 176124 women in Poland is named Ruzanna. 128 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2950 among female names.
Ruzanna as a middle name
Ruzanna is a first name for 128 women in Poland and a middle name for another 4, a 97/3 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4381st, between Ruslana (4) and Rybana (4).
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#4379 Ruchla4
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#4380 Ruslana4
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#4381 Ruzanna4
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#4382 Rybana4
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#4383 Rywana4