Roxána

given name · Latin script

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

Roxána is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ancient Greek Ῥωξᾱ́νη (Rhōxā́nē) of Old Persian or Bactrian origin. Akin to Persian روشن (rowšan).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 16K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 19K
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 755

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

20,917 people, 2020

Sources
351 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 755 (inferred from the name graph)

Costa Rica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Roxana in US United States, EC Ecuador, ES Spain and 1 more.

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)

From Ancient Greek Ῥωξᾱ́νη (Rhōxā́nē) of Old Persian or Bactrian origin. Akin to Persian روشن (rowšan).

Sources 6

  • 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
  • Wiktionary
  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Roxána 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 Roxána is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—20,9171 in 16K21KRoxana351
EC Ecuador—10,5841 in 1.6K11KRoxana17
VE Venezuela—9,2601 in 3.1K9.3K—2
CR Costa Rica—6,7501 in 7556.8K—1
ES Spain—2,5681 in 19K2.6KRoxana63
UY Uruguay—1,9231 in 1.8K1.9K——
MD Moldova—4411 in 7.6K441—3
RO Romania#538———Roxana64

20,917 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; INEC — civil registry names; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); e-services.md — living population register. 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)

Roxána is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name147 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Peru, India, El Salvador

    Languages: Spanish, Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Roxana, Rukhsana, Rukshana, Roksana, Roxani

  • Russian given name70 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Poland, Ukraine, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Ukrainian

    Also written Роксана, Раксана, Roksana, Roxanne, Roxana

  • Romanian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United States, Spain, Italy

    Also written Roxana, Ròxànà

3 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

196019802000Roshanak Wardak, b. 1962Roxane Vanrechem-Rossetto, b. 1971Roshanak Ajamian, b. 1977Roxane Cambraye, b. 1978Roshanak Gerami, b. 1983Vanda Roxána Magyar, b. 1998

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 5 sources across 3 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens

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

What does the name Roxána mean, and where does it come from?
From Ancient Greek Ῥωξᾱ́νη (Rhōxā́nē) of Old Persian or Bactrian origin. Akin to Persian روشن (rowšan). Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and Wiktionary and 4 other sources.
Is Roxána a male or female name?
Roxána 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.
In which country does Roxána have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 21 thousand people named Roxána, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled roxana.
Where is Roxána most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Roxána is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 755 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Roxána?
In the United States, the national register counted 20,917 people named Roxána in 2020, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
How common is Roxána compared with other names?
In Romania, Roxána is the 538th 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, “Roxána” — the 538th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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