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“Bright, luminous” — Old Persian/Bactrian, via Ancient Greek origin
Girl's name · #2366 in the US (2025) · 90s
Roxana reached its best rank, #619, in 1987 and ranked #2366 in 2025. About 12,000 girls have carried it since 1882. Roxy is a short form of Roxana. Together with its spelling variant Roxanna (#2856), Roxana would rank around #1540 with about 140 births last year — the newborns split about 56/44 between Roxana and Roxanna.
Around the world: about 1 in 8,900 girls in Austria (2025) · about 1 in 17,000 girls in Switzerland (2024).
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 4 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
Among 214 notable people named Roxana:
Medical professionals appear 1.81× more often than among typical names — e.g. Roxana Mehran, Iranian cardiologist.
Similar names: Roxanna · Stephany · Roxanne · Suzanna · Christiana · Selina
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