Roxanne
Roxanne was given to 170 girls in 2025, #1,315 among girls’ names; 59,587 Americans have been recorded with it since 1906 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 52,200 Americans named Roxanne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 40 and 67.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Roxanne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Roxanne mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Roxanne is “a female given name from Persian; a spelling variant of Roxane, fairly popular since the 1930s.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Roxanne?
#1,315 among girls’ names, 2025
Roxanne fell from #1,313 in 2015 to #1,315 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 0.10 to 0.11 per 1,000.
2,232 babies in 1954, the peak
Roxanne peaked in 1954, when 2,232 girls were given it, #158 among girls’ names. The 170 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 170 | #1,315 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 182 | #1,278 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 173 | #1,317 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 169 | #1,372 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 208 | #1,179 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 215 | #1,125 | 0.13 |
| 2019 | 199 | #1,183 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 183 | #1,267 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 190 | #1,249 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 188 | #1,284 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (108)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 181 | #1,313 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 211 | #1,170 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 253 | #993 | 0.14 |
| 2012 | 245 | #1,036 | 0.14 |
| 2011 | 245 | #1,021 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 236 | #1,053 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 258 | #1,018 | 0.14 |
| 2008 | 234 | #1,106 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 211 | #1,198 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 207 | #1,181 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 225 | #1,064 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 222 | #1,046 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 189 | #1,147 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 197 | #1,082 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 186 | #1,129 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 225 | #950 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 237 | #894 | 0.13 |
| 1998 | 256 | #833 | 0.14 |
| 1997 | 266 | #783 | 0.15 |
| 1996 | 330 | #672 | 0.19 |
| 1995 | 341 | #640 | 0.19 |
| 1994 | 376 | #599 | 0.21 |
| 1993 | 459 | #527 | 0.25 |
| 1992 | 585 | #431 | 0.32 |
| 1991 | 634 | #404 | 0.34 |
| 1990 | 803 | #336 | 0.42 |
| 1989 | 975 | #277 | 0.53 |
| 1988 | 1,191 | #218 | 0.67 |
| 1987 | 1,021 | #250 | 0.59 |
| 1986 | 811 | #302 | 0.47 |
| 1985 | 878 | #285 | 0.51 |
| 1984 | 749 | #317 | 0.44 |
| 1983 | 818 | #288 | 0.49 |
| 1982 | 879 | #278 | 0.52 |
| 1981 | 852 | #285 | 0.51 |
| 1980 | 870 | #285 | 0.52 |
| 1979 | 879 | #279 | 0.55 |
| 1978 | 760 | #308 | 0.50 |
| 1977 | 751 | #316 | 0.49 |
| 1976 | 679 | #329 | 0.46 |
| 1975 | 744 | #309 | 0.51 |
| 1974 | 722 | #317 | 0.49 |
| 1973 | 702 | #322 | 0.48 |
| 1972 | 883 | #288 | 0.58 |
| 1971 | 1,036 | #279 | 0.62 |
| 1970 | 1,013 | #289 | 0.58 |
| 1969 | 1,090 | #268 | 0.65 |
| 1968 | 1,015 | #267 | 0.62 |
| 1967 | 1,005 | #268 | 0.61 |
| 1966 | 1,186 | #245 | 0.70 |
| 1965 | 1,271 | #242 | 0.72 |
| 1964 | 1,324 | #241 | 0.70 |
| 1963 | 1,527 | #220 | 0.79 |
| 1962 | 1,515 | #219 | 0.77 |
| 1961 | 1,724 | #202 | 0.85 |
| 1960 | 1,920 | #193 | 0.95 |
| 1959 | 1,707 | #202 | 0.84 |
| 1958 | 1,586 | #205 | 0.79 |
| 1957 | 1,774 | #198 | 0.87 |
| 1956 | 2,114 | #172 | 1.1 |
| 1955 | 2,092 | #165 | 1.1 |
| 1954 | 2,232 | #158 | 1.1 |
| 1953 | 1,763 | #179 | 0.94 |
| 1952 | 1,578 | #187 | 0.85 |
| 1951 | 1,080 | #234 | 0.60 |
| 1950 | 682 | #297 | 0.40 |
| 1949 | 331 | #435 | 0.19 |
| 1948 | 290 | #470 | 0.17 |
| 1947 | 270 | #503 | 0.15 |
| 1946 | 232 | #517 | 0.15 |
| 1945 | 198 | #519 | 0.15 |
| 1944 | 175 | #549 | 0.13 |
| 1943 | 179 | #566 | 0.13 |
| 1942 | 107 | #724 | 0.08 |
| 1941 | 115 | #662 | 0.10 |
| 1940 | 90 | #733 | 0.08 |
| 1939 | 66 | #865 | 0.06 |
| 1938 | 62 | #903 | 0.06 |
| 1937 | 54 | #949 | 0.05 |
| 1936 | 53 | #949 | 0.05 |
| 1935 | 30 | #1,350 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 26 | #1,474 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 24 | #1,543 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 23 | #1,623 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 15 | #2,191 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 10 | #3,018 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,350 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,125 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,816 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,849 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,614 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,316 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,924 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,324 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,184 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,729 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,617 | 0.01 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,917 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Roxanne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Roxanne has been given almost only to girls: 55 boys in 108 years of records.
Girls and boys named Roxanne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Roxanne, and how old are they?
52,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 59,587 Americans ever recorded as Roxanne. The median Roxanne alive today is 57 years old; half are between 40 and 67.
The 2020 Census counted 52,496 people named Roxanne (52,454 women and girls, 42 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 53,336 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 545 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 20,700 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 13,500 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 11,400 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,600 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,510 |
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 Roxanne born?
The states with the most babies named Roxanne are California, Texas and New York, with 34% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8,527 | #1,081 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 5,607 | #1,259 | 1.3× |
| New York | 4,726 | #2,027 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 3,214 | #756 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 3,147 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Minnesota | 2,613 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Illinois | 2,506 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Wisconsin | 2,013 | #903 | 1.5× |
| Ohio | 1,878 | #1,657 | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 1,385 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Roxanne is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Roxanne is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1910 it was given 2.7 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 Roxanne 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, Roxanne is the most given (66% of them). In 2025 it was given to 170 of their 313 babies (54%), again the 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 Roxanne
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 Roxanne and names like it
- Compare Roxanne and RoxannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sRoxanne peaked in 1954.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Roxanne since 1910.
- The top names of 1954The year the most babies were named Roxanne.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Roxanne alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.