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Roxanna

#2,856 in 2025Girls' name

Lamp, through Roxana

Roxanna has been given to 13,466 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #2,856 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1988, with 316 recorded.

Babies named Roxanna, 2025

1 in 55,300

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Roxanna: meaning, origin, and history

Lamp, through Roxana

Persian

What Roxanna means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Roxanna is used in English. Its origins include Persian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Roxana and Ῥωξᾱ́νη.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13,459 girls were recorded with the name Roxanna between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 316 in 1988; its best national rank was #574 in 1954.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,591 in 2020 to #2,856 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,056 in 2015 to #2,856 in 2025.

In the United States, 7 boys were recorded with the name Roxanna between 1987 and 1987. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1987; its best national rank was #5,971 in 1987.

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 Roxanna?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 55,300
60 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 26,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,856
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
38,299 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Roxanna 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 38,299 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Roxanna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Roxannas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Roxanna was born before 1978 — so the typical Roxanna is around 47 today.

Median birth year
1978
About 47 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
15.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
11,818
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Choose a decade

1980s — 15.5% of all recorded uses (2,092).

Is Roxanna 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
+413
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−265
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−800
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.63×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
19.0%
Peak was 1988 (316)
Years since peak
37
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#574
1954

Spellings of Roxanna

Roxanna is not the most common spelling — Joanna is, with 31.4% against Roxanna's 3.8%.

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 Roxanna is used

Across 1910–2025, Roxanna was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 5,556 girls, against 1 in 16,522 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

018 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 5,556
  2. 2Arizona1 in 5,882
  3. 3Texas1 in 5,882
  4. 4Indiana1 in 12,500
  5. 5Kansas1 in 16,667
  6. 6Florida1 in 20,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 20,000
  8. 8Missouri1 in 20,000

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

Roxanna around the world

Where Roxanna 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
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1987–1990
    #615
    in 1990
  • Ireland
    2003–2008
    #862
    in 2008
  • France
    1991–2025
    #7,022
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1961–2007
    #803
    in 2007

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 Roxanna

People whose public names include Roxanna, 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.

Roxanna in other languages

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

RoxanaRoksanaRosannaRossanaRoxanne

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

Roxanna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,856
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 265
Best rank ever
#574
1954
Peak year
1988
316 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
13,459
Count in 2025
60

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,971
1987
Peak year
1987
7 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
1987
All-time count
7
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Roxanna

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

RoxanaRoxannEliannaRosannaRoxanneAviannaSuzannaMadonnaAryannaBryannaSusannaRoxaneLadonnaRoxieCorinnaRihannaTiannaGiovannaRhiannaAliannaSavannaMakennaAyannaBreonna

Names with a curve like Roxanna

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

RosalindaRosarioJanellMariSuzannaAnnamarieLeeannMauraLourdesJuliannGracielaElvia

Sibling names for Roxanna

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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