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Ruslan

#3,570 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Yeruslan

Ruslan has been given to 622 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #3,570 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Ruslan, 2025

1 in 104,000

Ruslan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ruslan: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Yeruslan

Tatar

What Ruslan means

Ruslan is a form of Yeruslan.

Origin, language, and formation

Ruslan is used in English, Betawi and Uzbek. Its origins include Tatar.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yeruslan, Aslan and Arslan.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Betawi, Ruslan is pronounced /ruslan/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 622 boys were recorded with the name Ruslan between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 32 in 2025; its best national rank was #3,505 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,246 in 2020 to #3,570 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,965 in 2015 to #3,570 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ruslan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 104,000
32 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 53,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,570
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
71,810 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ruslan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 71,810 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ruslan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ruslans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ruslan was born before 2013 — so the typical Ruslan is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
35.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
622
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 35.7% of all recorded uses (222).

Is Ruslan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+598
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+676
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+395
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.19×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (32)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,505
2000

Spellings of Ruslan

Ruslan is not the most common spelling — Rylan is, with 57.2% against Ruslan's 1.0%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Ruslan is used

Across 1910–2025, Ruslan was most concentrated in Washington — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 850,835 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Washington1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ruslan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ruslan around the world

Where Ruslan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2003–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2024–2024
    #785
    in 2024
  • France
    2007–2025
    #4,509
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2005–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2006–2006
    #657
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Ruslan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,570
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 676
Best rank ever
#3,505
2000
Peak year
2025
32 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
622
Count in 2025
32

Names similar to Ruslan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Ruslan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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