Name Awesome

Roxy

#2,477 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Roxana

Roxy has been given to 3,971 babies in the U.S. since 1882. In 2025 it ranked #2,477 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 145 recorded.

Babies named Roxy, 2025

1 in 46,000

Roxy over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Roxy: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Roxana

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Roxy means

Roxy is a diminutive of Roxana.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Roxy is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Roxana, Roxane and Roxanne.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Roxy is pronounced /ˈɹɑksi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,868 girls were recorded with the name Roxy between 1882 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 145 in 2009; its best national rank was #559 in 1883.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,385 in 2020 to #2,477 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,310 in 2015 to #2,477 in 2025.

In the United States, 103 boys were recorded with the name Roxy between 1914 and 1953. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1928; its best national rank was #2,737 in 1950.

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 Roxy?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 46,000
72 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 22,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,477
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
31,916 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Roxy 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 31,916 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Roxy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Roxys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Roxy was born before 1998 — so the typical Roxy is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
21.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
49.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,976
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 21.6% of all recorded uses (834).

Is Roxy 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
+687
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+908
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−167
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.89×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
49.7%
Peak was 2009 (145)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#559
1883

Spellings of Roxy

Roxy is not the most common spelling — Rose is, with 31.9% against Roxy's 0.25%.

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 Roxy is used

Across 2016–2025, Roxy was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 33,172 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

17 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 14,286
  2. 2California1 in 16,667
  3. 3Utah1 in 33,333
  4. 4Florida1 in 50,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 50,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
  8. 8New York1 in 100,000

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.

Roxy around the world

Where Roxy 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
    #1,051
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2008–2024
    #790
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    2009–2010
    #366
    in 2010
  • Ireland
    2009–2013
    #747
    in 2013
  • France
    2007–2015
    #7,803
    in 2015
  • Canada
    1992–2021
    #2,638
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1945–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA 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 Roxy

People whose public names include Roxy, 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.

Roxy in other languages

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

RoxieRoxcyRoxxxy

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

Roxy by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,477
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 908
Best rank ever
#559
1883
Peak year
2009
145 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,868
Count in 2025
72

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,737
1950
Peak year
1928
9 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
1953
All-time count
103
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Roxy

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

RoxaneRoxiRoxieRoxannRoxanaRoxannaRoxanRoxRoxanneRoxineRoxeneRoxeyRoxsanaRoxxiRoxaRoxetteRoxiiRoxxanneRoxeannFoxyRoxianneRoxsanneRoxsandRoxxane

Names with a curve like Roxy

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

DelilaAngelynDarlynGiseleGloryLilliaLucieLaelEllenaKarmaAlonaMaris

Sibling names for Roxy

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

Explore around Roxy

Top names of 2009, Roxy's peak yearThe 2000s in fullOther names that peaked in 1883Girls' names starting with R