Roxana
About 12,020 American babies have been named Roxana since 1882, most of them around 1991. In 2025 it ranked 2,354th. About 11,000 Roxanas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 32.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Roxana boys named Roxana
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 12,020
- Estimated living today
- 11,000
- Median age today
- 32
- Peak year
- 1991
- Best rank
- 679th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,354th
- First recorded
- 1882
- Girls / boys
- 11,994 / 26
How old the living Roxanas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 12,020 babies given the name since 1882, about 11,000 are alive — 92 in every hundred. Roughly 2,200 of them are children and 820 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1993 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Persian
From of or origin. Akin to Persian روشن.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Roxanas
- Roxana (346 BC–309 BC)Bactrian princess and wife of Alexander the Great
- Roxana Saberi (born 1977)American journalist
- Roxana Mînzatu (born 1980)Romanian politician
- Roxana Scarlat (born 1975)Romanian fencer
- Roxana Cogianu (born 1986)Romanian rower
- Roxana-Iuliana Anghel (born 1998)Romanian rower
- Roxana Baldetti (born 1962)Guatemalan politician
- Roxana Maracineanu (born 1975)French swimmer and politician
People named Roxana with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Roxana is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Roxana is most concentrated in California (4.7×), Texas (3.0×), Arizona (2.3×), Florida (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1991
The most popular girls’ names the year Roxana peaked:
Roxana elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poland girls | Roxana | 516 birth registrations | 160th |
| England and Wales girls | Roxana | 454 | 1,067th |
| France girls | Roxana | 405 | 1,902nd |
| Ireland girls | Roxana | 31 | 475th |
| Belgium girls | Roxana | 26 | 1,052nd |
| Scotland girls | Roxana | 8 | 668th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Roxana: rank by region
In 2009, Roxana was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brussels | Roxana | 248 | 6 |
In 2020, Roxana was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Roxana | 171 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Roxana by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 2 | 538th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Roxana among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Roxana | 21 | 38 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Roxana lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 2,568 women called Roxana were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lleida | Roxana | 46 | 0.206 | 477 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Roxana | 92 | 0.166 | 630 |
| Albacete | Roxana | 32 | 0.164 | 476 |
| Palencia | Roxana | 12 | 0.150 | 552 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Roxana | 46 | 0.146 | 590 |
| Madrid | Roxana | 537 | 0.145 | 517 |
Listed in 49 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 3 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Roxana against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.