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Roxana

#2,366 in 2025Girls' name

Lamp, through Ῥωξᾱ́νη

Roxana has been given to 12,020 babies in the U.S. since 1882. In 2025 it ranked #2,366 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 315 recorded.

Babies named Roxana, 2025

1 in 43,100

Roxana over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Roxana: meaning, origin, and history

Lamp, through Ῥωξᾱ́νη

Persian

What Roxana means

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

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Ancient Greek Ῥωξᾱ́νη (Rhōxā́nē) of Old Persian or Bactrian origin. Akin to Persian روشن (rowšan).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Roxana (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Roxana is used in English, Portuguese and Spanish. Its origins include Persian.

Roxana comes through Ancient Greek Ῥωξᾱ́νη.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Roxanne and Ῥωξᾱ́νη.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Roxana is pronounced /ʁokˈsɐ̃.nɐ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,994 girls were recorded with the name Roxana between 1882 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 315 in 1991; its best national rank was #619 in 1987.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,837 in 2020 to #2,366 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,683 in 2015 to #2,366 in 2025.

In the United States, 26 boys were recorded with the name Roxana between 1986 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1987; its best national rank was #5,970 in 1987.

How common is Roxana?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 43,100
77 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 20,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,366
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
29,844 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Roxana 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 2025 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 29,844 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Roxana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Roxanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Roxana was born before 1992 — so the typical Roxana is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
21.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
32.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
11,140
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 21.0% of all recorded uses (2,517).

Is Roxana 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
−270
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−529
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−683
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.61×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
24.4%
Peak was 1991 (315)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#619
1987

Spellings of Roxana

Roxana is not the most common spelling — Roxanne is, with 26.4% against Roxana's 5.3%.

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.

Where Roxana is used

Across 2016–2025, Roxana was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 14,729 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).

113 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 7,692
  2. 2Texas1 in 11,111
  3. 3Florida1 in 14,286
  4. 4Illinois1 in 25,000
  5. 5New York1 in 25,000
  6. 6Virginia1 in 25,000
  7. 7Arizona1 in 50,000
  8. 8Colorado1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Roxana around the world

Where Roxana 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
    1996–2025
    #2,278
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2009–2016
    #675
    in 2016
  • Ireland
    2001–2014
    #876
    in 2014
  • France
    1979–2025
    #3,038
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2021
    #2,930
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1965–2003
    #739
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Roxana

People whose public names include Roxana, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Roxana in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Roxana. Linked forms have their own page here.

RoxaneRoksanaRosannaRossanaRoxanneRoxetteRoshanakRoxalanaRoxelana

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Roxana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,366
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 529
Best rank ever
#619
1987
Peak year
1991
315 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
11,994
Count in 2025
77

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,970
1987
Peak year
1987
7 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
1993
All-time count
26
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Roxana

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

RoxannRoxaneRoxannaRoxieBreanaIlianaAiyanaAitanaDayanaAlianaAvianaAryanaMilanaJohanaSusanaBryanaAyanaIleanaSavanaGianaChanaTatyanaLilyanaElana

Names with a curve like Roxana

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Roxana, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

LorenLizetteStephanyAlyciaRebecaMarcelaLeandraKaceyRocioBeatrizJustinaJesse

Sibling names for Roxana

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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