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Roksana

Girls' name

Lamp, through Ῥωξᾱ́νη

Roksana has been given to 46 babies in the U.S. since 1994. 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 2007, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Roksana, 2020

1 in 418,000

Roksana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Roksana: meaning, origin, and history

Lamp, through Ῥωξᾱ́νη

Ancient Greek

What Roksana means

Roksana belongs to the name family reached through Roksana → Ῥωξᾱ́νη. Its meaning is “lamp”.

Origin, language, and formation

Roksana is used in Polish and Turkish. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Roksana comes through Ancient Greek Ῥωξᾱ́νη.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Roxana, luna and Ῥωξᾱ́νη.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Roksana is pronounced /rɔkˈsa.na/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 46 girls were recorded with the name Roksana between 1994 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2007; its best national rank was #11,923 in 2020.

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 Roksana?

Roksana had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 418,000
8 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 202,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,591 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Roksana 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 2020 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 289,591 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Roksana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Roksanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Roksana was born before 2011 — so the typical Roksana is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
46
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.1% of all recorded uses (18).

Is Roksana 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2007 (9)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#11,923
2020

Spellings of Roksana

Roksana is not the most common spelling — Rosanna is, with 34.2% against Roksana's 0.11%.

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.

Roksana around the world

Where Roksana ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2001–2022
    #5,670
    in 2022
  • Scotland
    2009–2011
    #674
    in 2011
  • Northern Ireland
    2008–2008
    #370
    in 2008
  • Ireland
    2007–2018
    #896
    in 2018
  • France
    2006–2006
    #4,332
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Roksana 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
—
Best rank ever
#11,923
2020
Peak year
2007
9 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
46
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Roksana

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

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Sibling names for Roksana

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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