# Roxanna (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/roxanna/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Persian |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 13,466 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 7 / 13,459 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 371, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 136 | 1,597 |
| 2012 | 120 | 1,728 |
| 2013 | 97 | 2,016 |
| 2014 | 107 | 1,889 |
| 2015 | 96 | 2,056 |
| 2016 | 91 | 2,145 |
| 2017 | 84 | 2,254 |
| 2018 | 88 | 2,157 |
| 2019 | 76 | 2,368 |
| 2020 | 66 | 2,591 |
| 2021 | 58 | 2,920 |
| 2022 | 65 | 2,681 |
| 2023 | 58 | 2,930 |
| 2024 | 49 | 3,269 |
| 2025 | 60 | 2,856 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 7 | 5,978 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 22 | 1,374 |
| 2012 | 15 | 1,893 |
| 2013 | 15 | 1,864 |
| 2014 | 13 | 2,058 |
| 2015 | 11 | 2,328 |
| 2016 | 16 | 1,834 |
| 2017 | 12 | 2,201 |
| 2018 | 12 | 2,187 |
| 2019 | 12 | 2,170 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,899 |
| 2021 | 12 | 2,201 |
| 2022 | 5 | 3,970 |
| 2023 | 11 | 2,346 |
| 2024 | 9 | 2,771 |
| 2025 | 5 | 4,201 |

## People named Roxanna

- Roxanna Panufnik, British composer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.