Given name · also Russian
Ruslana
Ruslana is a feminine given name from Russian.
Original UkrainianРусла́на
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Ruslana comes from Russian, and ultimately from Ukrainian.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2010. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ruslana through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 0 boys · 11 girls
- Most popular year
- 2010
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 6 in 2010. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 515 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ruslana’s family of names
In English usage, Ruslana has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Rusłana. In English usage, Ruslana has a conventional equivalent in the Belarusian form Русла́на. In Belarusian usage, Ruslana is a transliteration of Руслана.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Ruslana has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Ukrainian roots to each of them.
Ukrainianwhere Ruslana comes from · 1 name
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ruslana
- RuslanaUkrainian singerborn 1973
- Ruslana KorshunovaKazakhstani fashion model1987–2008
- Ruslana PysankaUkrainian actress (1965–2022)
- Ruslana Taransailorborn 1970
- Ruslana TsykhotskaUkrainian athletics competitorborn 1986
- Ruslana PanchyshynaSpanish-Ucranian singer and songwriterborn 2005
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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