Roxanna
Roxanna was given to 60 girls in 2025, #2,856 among girls’ names; 13,466 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,500 Americans named Roxanna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 27 and 62.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Roxanna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Roxanna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Roxanna is “a female given name from Persian, variant of Roxana.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Roxanna?
#2,856 among girls’ names, 2025
Roxanna fell from #2,056 in 2015 to #2,856 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 53.8 to 37.3 per million.
316 babies in 1988, the peak
Roxanna peaked in 1988, when 316 girls were given it, #630 among girls’ names. The 60 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60 | #2,856 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 49 | #3,269 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 58 | #2,930 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 65 | #2,681 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 58 | #2,920 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 66 | #2,591 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 76 | #2,368 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 88 | #2,157 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 84 | #2,254 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 91 | #2,145 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (140)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 96 | #2,056 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 107 | #1,889 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 97 | #2,016 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 120 | #1,728 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 136 | #1,597 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 163 | #1,413 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 148 | #1,535 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 143 | #1,596 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 147 | #1,555 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 145 | #1,520 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 133 | #1,544 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 152 | #1,377 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 150 | #1,356 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 136 | #1,414 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 155 | #1,275 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 124 | #1,487 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 122 | #1,439 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 112 | #1,517 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 113 | #1,463 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 162 | #1,120 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 171 | #1,049 | 0.10 |
| 1994 | 166 | #1,086 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 174 | #1,054 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 148 | #1,185 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 190 | #988 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 212 | #907 | 0.11 |
| 1989 | 254 | #768 | 0.14 |
| 1988 | 316 | #630 | 0.18 |
| 1987 | 301 | #634 | 0.17 |
| 1986 | 195 | #852 | 0.11 |
| 1985 | 189 | #855 | 0.11 |
| 1984 | 167 | #897 | 0.10 |
| 1983 | 185 | #831 | 0.11 |
| 1982 | 184 | #847 | 0.11 |
| 1981 | 184 | #850 | 0.11 |
| 1980 | 117 | #1,160 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 146 | #983 | 0.09 |
| 1978 | 125 | #1,066 | 0.08 |
| 1977 | 128 | #1,038 | 0.08 |
| 1976 | 132 | #969 | 0.09 |
| 1975 | 143 | #914 | 0.10 |
| 1974 | 120 | #1,007 | 0.08 |
| 1973 | 135 | #914 | 0.09 |
| 1972 | 169 | #803 | 0.11 |
| 1971 | 173 | #808 | 0.10 |
| 1970 | 161 | #843 | 0.09 |
| 1969 | 177 | #761 | 0.10 |
| 1968 | 162 | #790 | 0.10 |
| 1967 | 150 | #814 | 0.09 |
| 1966 | 179 | #739 | 0.11 |
| 1965 | 180 | #748 | 0.10 |
| 1964 | 172 | #796 | 0.09 |
| 1963 | 250 | #642 | 0.13 |
| 1962 | 237 | #660 | 0.12 |
| 1961 | 273 | #616 | 0.14 |
| 1960 | 254 | #635 | 0.13 |
| 1959 | 180 | #760 | 0.09 |
| 1958 | 176 | #750 | 0.09 |
| 1957 | 173 | #758 | 0.08 |
| 1956 | 204 | #674 | 0.10 |
| 1955 | 208 | #643 | 0.11 |
| 1954 | 245 | #574 | 0.13 |
| 1953 | 175 | #683 | 0.09 |
| 1952 | 156 | #713 | 0.08 |
| 1951 | 177 | #653 | 0.10 |
| 1950 | 149 | #704 | 0.09 |
| 1949 | 100 | #883 | 0.06 |
| 1948 | 106 | #852 | 0.06 |
| 1947 | 91 | #933 | 0.05 |
| 1946 | 95 | #851 | 0.06 |
| 1945 | 79 | #849 | 0.06 |
| 1944 | 72 | #907 | 0.05 |
| 1943 | 77 | #893 | 0.06 |
| 1942 | 46 | #1,175 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 47 | #1,083 | 0.04 |
| 1940 | 45 | #1,087 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 44 | #1,087 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 44 | #1,087 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 51 | #989 | 0.05 |
| 1936 | 49 | #991 | 0.05 |
| 1935 | 28 | #1,410 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 30 | #1,340 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,709 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 20 | #1,809 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,861 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 25 | #1,600 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 17 | #2,085 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 23 | #1,772 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 22 | #1,876 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,986 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 19 | #2,104 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,983 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 20 | #2,015 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 20 | #2,015 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,912 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 18 | #2,158 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 25 | #1,641 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 21 | #1,871 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 21 | #1,762 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 16 | #2,114 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 15 | #2,127 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 18 | #1,594 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,748 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,818 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,160 | 0.02 |
| 1910 | 12 | #1,412 | 0.03 |
| 1908 | 9 | #1,526 | 0.03 |
| 1906 | 11 | #1,218 | 0.04 |
| 1904 | 10 | #1,235 | 0.04 |
| 1903 | 14 | #965 | 0.05 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,759 | 0.02 |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,212 | 0.04 |
| 1900 | 12 | #1,158 | 0.04 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,561 | 0.03 |
| 1898 | 12 | #1,042 | 0.05 |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,367 | 0.03 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,774 | 0.02 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,463 | 0.03 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,620 | 0.02 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,425 | 0.03 |
| 1891 | 8 | #1,080 | 0.04 |
| 1890 | 7 | #1,183 | 0.04 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,454 | 0.03 |
| 1888 | 9 | #949 | 0.05 |
| 1886 | 9 | #818 | 0.06 |
| 1885 | 6 | #1,027 | 0.05 |
| 1884 | 7 | #915 | 0.05 |
| 1883 | 5 | #1,032 | 0.04 |
| 1882 | 8 | #731 | 0.07 |
| 1880 | 9 | #624 | 0.10 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Roxanna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Roxanna has been given almost only to girls: 7 boys in 140 years of records.
Girls and boys named Roxanna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Roxanna, and how old are they?
11,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 85% of the 13,466 Americans ever recorded as Roxanna. The median Roxanna alive today is 42 years old; half are between 27 and 62.
The 2020 Census counted 11,517 people named Roxanna (11,503 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,586 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 273 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,720 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,220 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,120 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,180 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 989 |
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 Roxanna born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 13 | #1,726 | 2.0× |
| Texas | 12 | #1,888 | 2.0× |
Where Roxanna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Roxanna is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 2.0 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 Roxanna 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 90,252 babies since 1880, Roxanna is the second most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 60 of their 313 babies (19%), the third most given that year.
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 Roxanna
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 Roxanna and names like it
- Compare Roxanna and RoxanneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sRoxanna peaked in 1988.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Roxanna since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Roxanna.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Roxanna alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.