Ruslan (given name)

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Ruslan (Russian: Руслан) is a masculine given name mainly popular among Turkic (Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Tatar, Uzbek), North Caucasian (Avar, Chechen, Lezgi, Cherkes, Ossetians) and some East Slavic people.[1] The name is an old Azeri/Caucasian Albanian variant of the Turkic[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] word arslan or aslan – meaning lion. The name is derived from Arslan, Eruslan (also Uruslan, Eruslane, Yeruslan), another earlier Tatar variant of the word. The name became popular through the folk tale hero Yeruslan Lazarevich (originally Uruslan). The name is popular in Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Belarus.

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Ruslan
GenderMale
Origin
Word/nameTurkic language region / North Caucasian
Meaninglion
Region of originCommonwealth of Independent States
Other names
Related namesRuslanka, Rusya, Lana, Ruslanbek, Ruslanid, Eruslan, Uruslan, Yeruslan
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The feminine version is Ruslana.

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People with the given name Ruslan

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