Girl · Old Persian, through Greek
Roxanne
Say it: rok-SAN
Meaning
From Greek Rhoxane, from an Old Persian name probably meaning 'bright, shining'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Known from Alexander's wife and from Cyrano de Bergerac (1897), it was popular in the US in the 1950s to 1970s.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1950s
In the United States
- 58,671 babies given this name since 1906
- At its height in 1954, about 1 in 870 girls
- 213 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Roxane, Roxana, Roxann
| French | Roxane |
|---|---|
| Italian | Rossana |
Famous bearers
- Roxana, wife of Alexander the Great
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Where this comes from
- Ancient Greek literature and history (Homer, Herodotus, Plutarch and others)
- Well-known works of literature
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.