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Roxane

#14,587 in 2025Girls' name

Lamp, through Ῥωξᾱ́νη

Roxane has been given to 5,179 babies in the U.S. since 1925. In 2025 it ranked #14,587 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1956, with 308 recorded.

Babies named Roxane, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Roxane: meaning, origin, and history

Lamp, through Ῥωξᾱ́νη

Old Persian

What Roxane means

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

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From French Roxane, from Ancient Greek Ῥωξᾱ́νη (Rhōxā́nē), from Old Persian *rauxšnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂. Doublet of Luna.

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

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Origin, language, and formation

Roxane is used in English and French. Its origins include Old Persian.

Roxane comes through French Roxane, Ancient Greek Ῥωξᾱ́νη, Old Persian *rauxšnā and Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Roxana, Luna and Ῥωξᾱ́νη.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Roxane is pronounced /ʁɔk.san/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,179 girls were recorded with the name Roxane between 1925 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 308 in 1956; its best national rank was #529 in 1956.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #11,933 in 2020 to #14,587 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #18,600 in 2015 to #14,587 in 2025.

How common is Roxane?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,587
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Roxane 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Roxane. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Roxanes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Roxane was born before 1962 — so the typical Roxane is around 63 today.

Median birth year
1962
About 63 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
37.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,980
People you could plausibly meet
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1960s — 37.3% of all recorded uses (1,931).

Is Roxane 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
−2,654
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,013
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
1.9%
Peak was 1956 (308)
Years since peak
69
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
52.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#529
1956

Spellings of Roxane

Roxane is not the most common spelling — Roxanne is, with 34.6% against Roxane's 3.0%.

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 Roxane is used

Across 1910–2025, Roxane was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 6,250 girls, against 1 in 43,251 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

016 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 6,250
  2. 2North Dakota1 in 14,286
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 16,667
  4. 4Wisconsin1 in 16,667
  5. 5Iowa1 in 20,000
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 20,000
  7. 7South Dakota1 in 20,000
  8. 8California1 in 25,000

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. Roxane has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Roxane around the world

Where Roxane 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
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1989–1989
    #576
    in 1989
  • France
    1903–2025
    #105
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2022
    #2,727
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1944–1998
    #710
    in 1998

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Roxane

People whose public names include Roxane, 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.

Roxane in other languages

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

RoxanaRoksanaRosannaRossanaRoxanneRoxelane

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

Roxane by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,587
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,654
Best rank ever
#529
1956
Peak year
1956
308 that year
First recorded
1925
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,179
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Roxane

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

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Names with a curve like Roxane

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

MigdaliaRobbinTeenaTereseMerriLeesaLiseLaureenCindiCherriDebiVikki

Sibling names for Roxane

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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