# Roxanne (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/roxanne/  
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 | 59,587 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 55 / 59,532 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,295, 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 | 245 | 1,021 |
| 2012 | 245 | 1,036 |
| 2013 | 253 | 993 |
| 2014 | 211 | 1,170 |
| 2015 | 181 | 1,313 |
| 2016 | 188 | 1,284 |
| 2017 | 190 | 1,249 |
| 2018 | 183 | 1,267 |
| 2019 | 199 | 1,183 |
| 2020 | 215 | 1,125 |
| 2021 | 208 | 1,179 |
| 2022 | 169 | 1,372 |
| 2023 | 173 | 1,317 |
| 2024 | 182 | 1,278 |
| 2025 | 170 | 1,315 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 5 | 4,376 |
| 1959 | 5 | 4,478 |
| 1961 | 6 | 3,992 |
| 1970 | 5 | 5,308 |
| 1981 | 5 | 7,074 |
| 1983 | 5 | 7,122 |
| 1985 | 5 | 7,377 |
| 1987 | 11 | 4,189 |
| 1988 | 8 | 5,642 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 153 | 316 |
| 2012 | 110 | 414 |
| 2013 | 71 | 575 |
| 2014 | 67 | 608 |
| 2015 | 68 | 609 |
| 2016 | 65 | 645 |
| 2017 | 47 | 814 |
| 2018 | 44 | 843 |
| 2019 | 36 | 980 |
| 2020 | 49 | 749 |
| 2021 | 39 | 901 |
| 2022 | 31 | 1,081 |
| 2023 | 21 | 1,469 |
| 2024 | 20 | 1,541 |
| 2025 | 20 | 1,512 |

## People named Roxanne

- Roxanne McKee, Canadian-born British actress
- Roxanne Hart, American actress
- Roxanne Perez, American professional wrestler
- Roxanne Seeman, American songwriter and lyricist
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, American historian
- Roxanne Pallett, English actress
- Roxanne Beckford, American actress
- Roxanne Shanté, American rapper
- Roxanne Hall, British pornographic actress
- Roxanne Guinoo, Filipino actress
- Roxanne Kernohan, actress (1960-1993)

## 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.