Roxanne
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A female given name from Persian; a spelling variant of Roxane, fairly popular since the 1930s
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 38 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Roxanne is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Guyana it is the 12th most common given name.
- GYGuyana1 in 802(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 2.9K
- CACanada≈1 in 3.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 514 (measured from records)
- 1 in 802 (inferred from the name graph)
52,496 people, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)A female given name from Persian; a spelling variant of Roxane, fairly popular since the 1930s.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Roxanne, 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)Roxanne 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #625 | 52,496 | 1 in 6.3K | 52K | Roxanne | 514 |
| PH Philippines | #708 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | 28K | Roxanne | 129 |
| GB United Kingdom | #613 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | 3 | Roxanne | 204 |
| CA Canada | #459 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | 2 | Roxanne | 240 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈9,300 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | Roxanne | 94 |
| SG Singapore | #471 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Roxanne | 53 |
| GY Guyana | #12 | 935 | 1 in 802 | 935 | Roxanne | 7 |
52,496 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortizb. 1938USAmerican historian
- Roxanne Hartb. 1952USAmerican actress
- Cathy Rigbyb. 1952USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress, speaker, and former artistic gymnast (born 1952)
- Roxanne Seemanb. 1954USAmerican songwriter and lyricist
- Roxanne Shantéb. 1969USAmerican rapper
- Roxanne Hallb. 1976GBBritish pornographic actress
- Roxanne McKeeb. 1980GBCanadian-born British actress
- Roxanne Pallettb. 1982GBEnglish actress
- Roxanne Emeryb. 1984GBBritish musician
- Roxane Depardieub. 1992FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress
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)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)60 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 38 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Roxanne a male or female name?
- Roxanne is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), France (INSEE, 2024), Netherlands (Meertens NVB) and Brazil (IBGE, 2022), among others.
- What does the name Roxanne mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name from Persian; a spelling variant of Roxane, fairly popular since the 1930s. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Roxanne?
- In the etymology graph, Roxana, Rosana and Rossana are forms of the same name in other languages; Roxie and Roxy are recorded short or pet forms.
- In which country does Roxanne have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 52 thousand people named Roxanne, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled roxanne.
- Where is Roxanne most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Roxanne is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 802 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Roxanne?
- In the United States, the national register counted 52,496 people named Roxanne in 2020, about 1 in 6.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Roxanne compared with other names?
- In the United States, Roxanne is the 625th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/roxanneThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Roxanne” — the 625th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.