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Ruslan

Form of Yeruslan used by Aleksandr Pushkin in his poem Ruslan and Ludmila, which was loosely based on Russian and Tatar folktales of Yeruslan Lazarevich.

PronunciationRussian /rʊs.ˈɫan/; Belarusian /rus.ˈɫan/
Usage languagesAvar, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Belarusian, Chechen, Circassian, Indonesian, Ingush, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Malay, Ossetian, Russian, Tatar, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Uzbek
US rank (2025)#3,513

Meaning and history

A form of Yeruslan used by Aleksandr Pushkin in his poem Ruslan and Ludmila (1820), which was loosely based on Russian and Tatar folktales about Yeruslan Lazarevich.

Popularity over timeUS births · boys
20062006: 19 births, rank #4,675
2007: 23 births, rank #4,243
2008: 19 births, rank #4,901
2009: 22 births, rank #4,429
2010: 21 births, rank #4,517
20112011: 18 births, rank #4,983
2012: 17 births, rank #5,256
2013: 23 births, rank #4,180
2014: 20 births, rank #4,702
2015: 27 births, rank #3,882
20162016: 20 births, rank #4,776
2017: 20 births, rank #4,746
2018: 29 births, rank #3,708
2019: 27 births, rank #3,899
2020: 24 births, rank #4,141
20212021: 21 births, rank #4,628
2022: 25 births, rank #4,184
2023: 19 births, rank #5,075
2024: 26 births, rank #4,072
20252025: 32 births, rank #3,513

In 2025, 32 babies were recorded with the name Ruslan, ranking #3,513 among boys.