Ruslan
given name · Ukrainian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ruslan is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 62nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Ukrainian and Russian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Russian Руслан (Ruslan), from Tatar арыслан (arıslan), from Proto-Turkic *arsïlan (“lion”). Doublet of arslon. Cognate with English Aslan/English Arslan.
- ZWZimbabwe1 in 110◐
- AZAzerbaijan1 in 242
- MDMoldova1 in 242
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈88K ●
- #432 ●
- 6 ●
- Sources
- 231 ●
- 1 in 242 ◐
across 10 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
3.2M records
Official registry-verified
Moldova
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Руслан in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 9 more, Რუსლან in GE Georgia, Ruşlan in TM Turkmenistan and รุสมีนี in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
- RussianРусланRuslan●
- Tatarарысланarıslan●
- Proto-Turkic*arsïlan“lion”●
Borrowed from Russian Руслан (Ruslan), from Tatar арыслан (arıslan), from Proto-Turkic *arsïlan (“lion”). Doublet of arslon. Cognate with English Aslan/English Arslan.
Sources 1
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #62 | 3,565,120 | 1.7M rec. | — | #40 | Руслан | 202 |
| UA Ukraine | #53 | 1,305,047 | 1.3M rec. | — | listed | Руслан | 113 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #6 | 89,110 | 21K rec. | — | — | Руслан | 45 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 48,834 | 5.1K rec. | — | — | Руслан | 32 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #25 | 40,374 | 116K rec. | 1 in 473 | 40K | Руслан | 76 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #54 | 28,314 | 4.3K rec. | — | listed | Руслан | 51 |
| PL Poland | #289 | 23,382△ | 779 rec. | 1 in 1.6K | 23K | Ruslan | 86 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #6 | 18,278 | 3.9K rec. | — | 477 | Руслан | 63 |
| MD Moldova | #67 | 13,924△ | 764 rec. | 1 in 242 | 14K | Ruslan | 33 |
| TM Turkmenistan | #27 | 13,630 | 14K rec. | — | — | Ruşlan | 25 |
| BY Belarus | #65 | 12,515 | 4.3K rec. | — | 3 | Руслан | 42 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | #5 | 7,668 | 12 rec. | — | — | Руслан | 2 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Ukrainian189K34%
- Russian140K25%
- Polish93K16%
- Indonesian19K3%
- Romanian15K3%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Ukrainian | 189,489 | 34% |
| Russian | 140,314 | 25% |
| Polish | 92,578 | 16% |
| Indonesian | 19,041 | 3% |
| Romanian | 14,879 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Ruslan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A transliteration of the Russian or Ukrainian male given name Русла́н (Ruslán)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1992 | 9 |
| 1993 | 9 |
| 1995 | 17 |
| 1996 | 13 |
| 1998 | 8 |
| 1999 | 12 |
| 2000 | 24 |
| 2001 | 18 |
| 2002 | 8 |
| 2003 | 22 |
| 2004 | 17 |
| 2005 | 13 |
| 2006 | 19 |
| 2007 | 23 |
| 2008 | 19 |
| 2009 | 22 |
| 2010 | 21 |
| 2011 | 18 |
| 2012 | 17 |
| 2013 | 23 |
| 2014 | 20 |
| 2015 | 27 |
| 2016 | 20 |
| 2017 | 20 |
| 2018 | 29 |
| 2019 | 27 |
| 2020 | 24 |
| 2021 | 21 |
| 2022 | 25 |
| 2023 | 19 |
| 2024 | 26 |
| 2025 | 32 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 32 years between 1992–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Ruslan Khasbulatovb. 1942RURussian politician (1942–2023)
- Ruslan Tsalikovb. 1956RURussian politician (born 1956)
- Ruslan Medzhitovb. 1966USUzbekistani American immunologist
- Ruslan Khomchakb. 1967UAUkrainian military officer
- Ruslan Stefanchukb. 1975UAUkrainian politician and lawyer
- Ruslan Baltievb. 1978KZKazakhstani footballer
- Ruslan Chagaevb. 1978UZUzbekistani boxer
- Ruslan Rotanb. 1981UAUkrainian footballer
- Ruslan Ponomariovb. 1983UAUkrainian chess player
- Ruslan Malinovskyib. 1993UAUkrainian footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 59 sources across 31 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 245 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ruslan?
- We estimate roughly 88 thousand people bear Ruslan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ruslan have the most bearers?
- Ruslan is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled руслан.
- How common is Ruslan compared with other names?
- In Russia, Ruslan is the 62nd most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
- Is Ruslan a male or female name?
- Ruslan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Ruslan mean?
- Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Russian Руслан (Ruslan), from Tatar арыслан (arıslan), from Proto-Turkic *arsïlan (“lion”). Doublet of arslon. Cognate with English Aslan/English Arslan.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ruslan” — the 62nd most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.