Roxanna

Where Roxanna comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Roxanna.

  • Persian
  • Vowel-ended
Roxanna through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #580 among girls, with 9 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1954
    Peak, #572
    245 babies named Roxanna, its best rank.
  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.