Aslan is a boy's name of Turkish origin meaning “lion.” In 2024 it was given to 210 boys in the United States.
Aslan at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Turkish
Meaning
“lion”
About the name Aslan
Aslan belongs to the Turkish tradition. Its meaning — “lion” — is the sense carried by its Turkish roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Aslan first appears in Social Security records in 1979. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #1046 in 2024, and in 2024 210 babies received the name — 1,439 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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