Entry № 8949 · Slavic origin

Rusalka Rusalka — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ roo-SAHL-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Slavic
Meaning
"Water nymph"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "water nymph".

Rusalka is a water nymph of Slavic folklore — beautiful, mysterious, tied to rivers and lakes. It carries enchantment and the pull of water.

Water nymph — a Slavic name.

The name in its native script.

Rusalka
Transliteration
Rusalka
Pronunciation
/ ruˈsal.ka /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Rusalka stands.

Rusalka does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Rusalkas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Rusalka.

The number behind Rusalka.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rusalka reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.