Roxanna

Where Roxanna comes from

The dictionaries list Roxanna as a given name — a female given name from Persian, variant of Roxana — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Persian
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #580 among girls — 9 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1954
    Peak, #572
    245 babies named Roxanna — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1968
    Roxanna Panufnik born
    British composer
  4. 1974
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,003.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Persian, variant of Roxana.
Namesakes
  • Roxanna Panufnik · British composer, born 1968

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.