Meaning and history
Latin form of Ῥωξάνη (Rhoxane), the Greek form of an Old Persian or Bactrian name derived from Old Iranian *rauxšnā, meaning “bright” or “shining.” It was the name of Alexander the Great’s first wife, the daughter of the Bactrian nobleman Oxyartes. The name reappeared in the modern era in the 17th century and was popularized in the English-speaking world by Daniel Defoe’s novel Roxana (1724).
20062006: 245 births, rank #1,045
2007: 221 births, rank #1,157
2008: 207 births, rank #1,222
2009: 225 births, rank #1,121
2010: 167 births, rank #1,384
20112011: 189 births, rank #1,261
2012: 140 births, rank #1,559
2013: 118 births, rank #1,744
2014: 105 births, rank #1,908
2015: 127 births, rank #1,677
20162016: 107 births, rank #1,890
2017: 108 births, rank #1,876
2018: 100 births, rank #1,968
2019: 109 births, rank #1,850
2020: 107 births, rank #1,830
20212021: 97 births, rank #1,991
2022: 94 births, rank #2,048
2023: 88 births, rank #2,156
2024: 92 births, rank #2,080
20252025: 77 births, rank #2,354
Roxana rose from #980 to #974 for girls between 2004 and 2005. Its highest annual birth count came in 1991, with 315 births.