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Ruslana

Girls' name

Love, care, desire, through -

Ruslana has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 2010. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2010, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Ruslana, 2019

1 in 694,000

Ruslana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ruslana: meaning, origin, and history

Love, care, desire, through -

Russian and Ukrainian

What Ruslana means

Ruslana belongs to the name family reached through Ruslana → -. Its meaning is “love, care, desire”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

A transliteration of the female given name - Russian and Ukrainian Русла́на (Ruslána)

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Ruslana (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Ruslana is used in English. Its origins include Russian and Ukrainian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ruslan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 girls were recorded with the name Ruslana between 2010 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2010; its best national rank was #16,562 in 2010.

How common is Ruslana?

Ruslana had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 694,000
5 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 336,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,354 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ruslana sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 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 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ruslana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ruslanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ruslana was born before 2010 — so the typical Ruslana is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Ruslana 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2010 (6)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#16,562
2010

Spellings of Ruslana

Ruslana is not the most common spelling — Susana is, with 85.9% against Ruslana's 0.04%.

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.

Ruslana around the world

Where Ruslana 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
    2016–2016
    #4,096
    in 2016
  • France
    2022–2022
    #6,373
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Ruslana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#16,562
2010
Peak year
2010
6 that year
First recorded
2010
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ruslana

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

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Sibling names for Ruslana

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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