Roxanne

Where Roxanne comes from

The dictionaries list Roxanne as a given name — a female given name from Persian; a spelling variant of Roxane, fairly popular since the 1930s — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Persian
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1906
    First appearance
    #1,727 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1952
    Roxanne Hart born
    American actress
  3. 1954
    Peak, #158
    2,232 babies named Roxanne — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1967
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #268.
  5. 1980
    Roxanne McKee born
    Canadian-born British actress
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Persian; a spelling variant of Roxane, fairly popular since the 1930s.
Namesakes
  • Roxanne McKee · Canadian-born British actress, born 1980
  • Roxanne Hart · American actress, born 1952
  • Roxanne Perez · American professional wrestler, born 2001
  • Roxanne Seeman · American songwriter and lyricist, born 1954
  • Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz · American historian, born 1938

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.