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Rexanne

Girls' name

Variant of Roxane

Rexanne has been given to 220 babies in the U.S. since 1947. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1954, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Rexanne, 1983

1 in 693,000

Rexanne over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rexanne: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Roxane

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rexanne means

Rexanne is a variant of Roxane.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Rexanne is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ɹɛk.ˈsæn/ for Rexanne.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Rexanne → Roxane → Ῥωξᾱ́νη. The family’s meaning is “lamp”, recorded in Ancient Greek with the source elements lŭ́khnos.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Roxane.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 220 girls were recorded with the name Rexanne between 1947 and 1983. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1954; its best national rank was #2,984 in 1954.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Rexanne?

Rexanne had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1983, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1983
1 in 693,000
5 of 3,463,011 births
Among girls only
1 in 334,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1983
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
480,076 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rexanne sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1983 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 480,076 children born in 1983 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rexanne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rexannes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rexanne was born before 1958 — so the typical Rexanne is around 67 today.

Median birth year
1958
About 67 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
51.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
47.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
208
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 51.8% of all recorded uses (114).

Is Rexanne rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1954 (15)
Years since peak
71
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,984
1954

Spellings of Rexanne

Rexanne is not the most common spelling — Jeanne is, with 48.2% against Rexanne's 0.06%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Rexanne by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,984
1954
Peak year
1954
15 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
1983
All-time count
220
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rexanne

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Rexanne

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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