Girls' name · since 1940
Roxene
Roxene has 100 recorded births since 1940 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1950 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #27,149 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 100
- born since 1940
- 1950s
- peak decade
Roxene is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 100 have been recorded since 1940.
Roxene has 100 recorded births among girls since 1940, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1950s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1940 to 1964.
- #27,149 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 100 born since 1940
- 1950s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Roxene ranks #27,149 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 100 born since 1940, peaking in the 1950s.
- #27,149 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 100
- born since 1940
- 1950s
- peak decade
Roxene's 100 recorded births place it above 62.42% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Roxene's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Roxene splits its recorded history at 1952: 45% of all births land in the more recent half, 55% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1953 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1950 peak of 11 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Roxene popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1940–1964
- Peak year (1950)
- 11
- Annual births at peak, across 25 years of records
Roxene by decade
1950s is the heaviest window (46 births, 46% of the file).
1950s was Roxene's strongest decade.
46 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 46% of all-time use.
Roxene births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1940s
1940s
44 births
- 1950s
1950s
46 births
- 1960s 10
1960s
10 births
What this shows Peak: 1950s at 46 births (46% of all-time use).
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- Roxene's decade-level peak was the 1950s (46 total births); usage has since declined to 10 in the 1960s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Roxene: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1950)
Similar record span (~24 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1940–1964 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Roxene draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.