Roxane
Roxane was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,587 among girls’ names; 5,179 Americans have been recorded with it since 1925 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,420 Americans named Roxane and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 55 and 68.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Roxane by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Roxane mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Roxane is “a female given name from Old Persian.”
From French Roxane, from Ancient Greek Ῥωξᾱ́νη (Rhōxā́nē), from Old Persian *rauxšnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂. Doublet of Lua and Luna.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Roxane?
#14,587 among girls’ names, 2025
Roxane rose from #18,600 in 2015 to #14,587 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 3.7 per million.
308 babies in 1956, the peak
Roxane peaked in 1956, when 308 girls were given it, #529 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,587 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,845 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,207 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,933 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,219 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,695 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,520 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,701 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,600 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,278 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (93)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 7 | #14,313 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 13 | #9,020 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,002 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,060 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,523 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 16 | #8,031 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 23 | #6,046 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,216 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,983 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,616 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,361 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,909 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,229 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,938 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,145 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,123 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,640 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,993 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,494 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,236 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,366 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,209 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,169 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,740 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,756 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 32 | #3,137 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 36 | #2,764 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,734 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 37 | #2,639 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 40 | #2,409 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 28 | #3,047 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 32 | #2,885 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,320 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 41 | #2,382 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,714 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 57 | #1,799 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 51 | #1,948 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 54 | #1,772 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 47 | #1,929 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 54 | #1,704 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 59 | #1,585 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 60 | #1,557 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 86 | #1,288 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 106 | #1,116 | 0.06 |
| 1969 | 136 | #911 | 0.08 |
| 1968 | 146 | #845 | 0.09 |
| 1967 | 134 | #883 | 0.08 |
| 1966 | 172 | #750 | 0.10 |
| 1965 | 188 | #727 | 0.11 |
| 1964 | 205 | #726 | 0.11 |
| 1963 | 207 | #710 | 0.11 |
| 1962 | 231 | #675 | 0.12 |
| 1961 | 231 | #684 | 0.11 |
| 1960 | 281 | #591 | 0.14 |
| 1959 | 257 | #623 | 0.13 |
| 1958 | 272 | #602 | 0.14 |
| 1957 | 292 | #561 | 0.14 |
| 1956 | 308 | #529 | 0.15 |
| 1955 | 236 | #602 | 0.12 |
| 1954 | 119 | #880 | 0.06 |
| 1953 | 95 | #984 | 0.05 |
| 1952 | 89 | #1,002 | 0.05 |
| 1951 | 56 | #1,249 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 38 | #1,520 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 27 | #1,871 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,680 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,432 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,858 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,716 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,746 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,826 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,778 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,512 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 20 | #1,836 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,834 | under 0.01 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,880 | under 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,813 | under 0.01 |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,133 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,864 | under 0.01 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,475 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,986 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,489 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,875 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Roxane a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Roxane has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 93 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Roxane: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Roxane, and how old are they?
4,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 85% of the 5,179 Americans ever recorded as Roxane. The median Roxane alive today is 63 years old; half are between 55 and 68.
The 2020 Census counted 4,773 people named Roxane (4,769 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,622 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 45 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,450 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,300 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 370 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 177 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 79 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Roxane born?
The states with the most babies named Roxane are California, New York and Texas, with 37% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 569 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New York | 299 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 281 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 254 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 231 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 202 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Wisconsin | 195 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Minnesota | 167 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Ohio | 147 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Louisiana | 138 | not ranked | 1.3× |
Where Roxane is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Roxane is most over-represented in Wisconsin: since 1925 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Roxane with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 90,590 babies since 1880, Roxane is the fourth most given (5.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 313 babies (1.9%), again the fourth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Roxane
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Roxane and names like it
- Compare Roxane and RoxanneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sRoxane peaked in 1956.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Roxane since 1910.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Roxane.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Roxane alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.