Roxanne
The girl's name Roxanne has been in the national records since 1906, with 59,587 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,309th. About 53,000 Roxannes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 56.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Roxanne boys named Roxanne
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 59,587
- Estimated living today
- 53,000
- Median age today
- 56
- Peak year
- 1954
- Best rank
- 158th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,309th
- First recorded
- 1906
- Girls / boys
- 59,532 / 55
How old the living Roxannes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 59,587 babies given the name since 1906, about 53,000 are alive — 88 in every hundred. Roughly 3,700 of them are children and 16,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1969 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Persian
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Roxannes
- Roxanne McKee (born 1980)Canadian-born British actress
- Roxanne Hart (born 1952)American actress
- Roxanne Perez (born 2001)American professional wrestler
- Roxanne Seeman (born 1954)American songwriter and lyricist
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (born 1938)American historian
- Roxanne Kimberly Barker (born 1991)South African footballer
- Roxanne Pallett (born 1982)English actress
People named Roxanne with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Roxanne is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Roxanne is most concentrated in Hawaii (3.7×), Minnesota (2.5×), North Dakota (2.2×), Maine (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1954
The most popular girls’ names the year Roxanne peaked:
Roxanne elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Roxanne | 4,265 | 289th |
| England and Wales girls | Roxanne | 2,295 | 229th |
| Belgium girls | Roxanne | 915 | 151st |
| Scotland girls | Roxanne | 316 | 162nd |
| Switzerland girls | Roxanne | 112 | 530th |
| Ireland girls | Roxanne | 78 | 396th |
| Poland girls | Roxanne | 35 birth registrations | 371st |
| Northern Ireland girls | Roxanne | 11 | 324th |
| France boys | Roxanne | 5 | 3,317th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Roxanne: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Roxanne | 23 | 0.002% | 525th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Roxanne | 87 | 0.020% | 186th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Roxanne | 2 | 0.003% | 191st |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Roxanne is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.02% of children were given it – 31 of them.
Roxanne: rank by region
In 2025, Roxanne was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Roxanne | 213 | 26 |
| Wallonia | Roxanne | 452 | 5 |
In 2016, Roxanne was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Roxanne | 10 | 1 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Roxanne appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (109th), Province of West Flanders (186th) and Province of Antwerp (326th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Roxanne among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Roxanne | 2,314 | 3,195 |
| Finland girls | Roxanne | 21 | 30 |
| the Netherlands boys | Roxanne | — | 5 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Roxanne against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.