Roxanne

Where Roxanne comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Roxanne.

  • Persian
  • Vowel-ended
Roxanne through the years
  1. 1906
    First appearance
    #1,727 among girls with 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, the most in any year.
  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.