Aslan

Where Aslan comes from

Aslan hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1951
    Aslan Maskhadov born
    Chechen warlord and politician
  2. 1963
    Aslan Bzhania born
    Abkhaz politician
  3. 1979
    First appearance
    #4,842 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1998
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  5. 2025
    Peak, #860
    280 babies named Aslan — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Aslan Maskhadov · Chechen warlord and politician, 1951–2005
  • Aslan Bzhania · Abkhaz politician, born 1963
  • Aslan Karatsev · Russian tennis player, born 1993
  • Aslan Abashidze · Georgian politician, former leader of the Ajarian Autonomous Republic, born 1938
  • Aslan Usoyan · Russian criminal of Kurdish origin, 1937–2013

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.