Roxana

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Roxana is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country. In Bolivia it is the 7th most common given name. In Spanish, recorded as Roxana, the wife of Alexander.

rarermore common
  • RORomania≈1 in 277(inferred from the name graph)
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 282
  • BOBolivia≈1 in 502

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. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Romania (inferred from the name graph)

≈77,000 people, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
354 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 277 (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 Roksana in PL Poland, 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.

Sources 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.

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
RO Romania#429≈77,000 est.≈1 in 277—Roxana75
AR Argentina#208≈54,000 est.≈1 in 84137Roxana126
PE Peru#83≈54,000 est.≈1 in 592—Roxana102
BD Bangladesh#172≈32,000 est.≈1 in 5.1K—Roksana59
PL Poland—32,148as Roksana1 in 1.2K32KRoksana5
BO Bolivia#7≈23,000 est.≈1 in 502—Roxana52
SV El Salvador#62≈23,000 est.≈1 in 282—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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 73 sources 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
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—854#520
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026854#520
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—
PL PolandMinistry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present)20232—
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

Where does the name Roxana come from?
The wife of Alexander the Great. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What does the name Roxana mean?
In Spanish, Roxana, the wife of Alexander
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.
In which country does Roxana have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 77 thousand people named Roxana in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled roxana.
Is Roxana a male or female name?
Roxana is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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 Romania, Roxana is the 429th most common given name of 34,167 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 429th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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