First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
Armenian: patronymic from a personal name based on arslan ‘lion’, a word of Turkish origin. Compare Aslan. Arslan was a title of the shahs of Iran.