Ruslan (given name)

Ruslan (Russian and Ukrainian: Руслан [rʊsˈɫan]) is a masculine given name, a variant of the Turkic word aslan or arslan, meaning 'lion'. The name was popularized in the Russian Empire by the poem of Alexander Pushkin, Ruslan and Ludmila. Earlier, a version Yeruslan was attested. There is no established opinion whether one name was derived from another.

The feminine version is Ruslana.