Roxana

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: Roxana, the wife of Alexander

A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 41 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025

/roɡˈsana/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary

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Roxana is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country. In Bolivia it is the 7th most common given name.

  • RORomania≈1 in 190(inferred from the name graph)
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 260
  • BOBolivia≈1 in 330

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Roxana itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)

≈100,000 named Roksana, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
354 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 189 (inferred from the name graph)

Romania, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
RoxanaLatin(measured from records)
ΡωξάνηGreek(measured from records)
РоксанаCyrillic(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Rukhsana in IN India and Roksana in BD Bangladesh.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

The wife of Alexander the Great.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

How Roxana is read

(measured from records)

Roxana is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish82%

    Roxana, the wife of Alexander

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Del persa, probablemente 'alba, aurora'.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • English7.1%

    The wife of Alexander the Great.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Persian; wife of Alexander the Great.

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Often considered alongside

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Roxana, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Roxana counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Roxana is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BD Bangladesh#172≈100,000 est.≈1 in 1.7K—Roksana59
RO Romania#429≈100,000 est.≈1 in 189—Roxana75
PE Peru#83≈66,000 est.≈1 in 515—Roxana102
IN India—≈62,000 est.≈1 in 23K224Rukhsana74
AR Argentina#208≈57,000 est.≈1 in 80137Roxana126
BO Bolivia#7≈37,000 est.≈1 in 333—Roxana52
SV El Salvador#62≈25,000 est.≈1 in 258—Roxana50
US United States—20,9171 in 16K21KRoxana354
CR Costa Rica#486,7501 in 7556.8KRoxana65

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Roxana is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Germany, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Swedish

    Also written Roxána, Roxàna, Röxänä, Roxãnã, R̶o̶x̶a̶n̶a̶

  • Romanian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United States, Spain, Italy

    Also written Roxána, Ròxànà

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Roxána

  • Russian given name70 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Poland, Ukraine, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Ukrainian

    Also written Роксана, Раксана, Roksana, Roxanne, Роксанна

  • Lao given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Chile, Peru

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Röxänä, Róxáná

  • Finnish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Romania, Peru, Spain

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Roxänä

57 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Roxana is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Variante de Roxane, issu du grec; nom de l’épouse d’Alexandre le Grand.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In German, ) Roxane: weibl. Vom. altper­ sischen Ursprungs (altpersisch [awestisch] raoxsna »strahlend, glänzend«, später »Mor­ genröte«). Roxana hieß die GemahHn Alexan­ ders des Großen. Der Name begegnet auch mehrmals in der Literatur, z.B. in Radnes »Bajazet« (1672), in dem Roman »Roxana« von Daniel Defoe (1724) und in Edmond

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
0500100015002000Roxana, b. 347Roxana Baldetti, b. 1962Roxana Zal, b. 1969Roxana Scarlat, b. 1975Roxana Mărăcineanu, b. 1975Roxana Saberi, b. 1977Roxana Brusso, b. 1978Roxana Cocoș, b. 1989Roxana-Iuliana Anghel, b. 1998Roxen, b. 2000

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them

(machine-generated)
InformalHola Roxana,Hi Roxana, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence

(measured from records)

73 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 41 countries.

Official registers attesting Roxana
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202021K#1,559
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—6.8K#105
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202577—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)202437#1,210
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202031#1,559
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)19936—
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)20152—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)20152—
CR Costa RicaTSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration)———

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Roxana?
In Spanish /roɡˈsana/ (Wiktionary).
Where does the name Roxana come from?
The wife of Alexander the Great. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Roxana?
In the etymology graph, Rosana, Roxanne and Rossana are forms of the same name in other languages; Roxie and Roxy are recorded short or pet forms.
What does the name Roxana mean?
In Spanish, Roxana, the wife of Alexander
In which country does Roxana have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 104 thousand people named Roksana in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
Is Roxana a male or female name?
Roxana is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Ecuador (INEC, 2024), Venezuela (asosab) and Spain (INE), among others.
How common is the name Roxana?
In the United States, the national register counted 20,917 people named Roxana in 2020, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
How common is Roxana compared with other names?
In Bangladesh, Roxana is the 172nd most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Roxana” — the 172nd most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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