Roxana

given name · Spanish · Latin script

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

Roxana is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. In El Salvador it is the 45th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: The wife of Alexander the Great.

rarermore common
  • SVEl Salvador1 in 388◐
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 755
  • PEPeru1 in 756

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈99K ●

across 11 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
320 ●

1.0M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 755 ◐

Costa Rica

Spellings & scripts●

RoxanaLatin · Spanish●1.4M records
ΡωξανηGreek · Greek●16 records
РоксанаCyrillic · Tajik●3 records

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Rukhsana in IN India, PK Pakistan, GB United Kingdom and 2 more, Roksana in BD Bangladesh, PL Poland, FR France and 1 more and Rukshana in AU Australia.

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

Meaning & origin●

The wife of Alexander the Great.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Roxana is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#214707,672424K rec.—37Roxana118
BD Bangladesh#86356,1551.1K rec.——Roksana57
IN India—343,49354K rec.—224Rukhsana66
PE Peru#95298,343246K rec.——Roxana92
CL Chile#20079,0465.3K rec.—5Roxana99
MX Mexico#45772,58555K rec.—347Roxana173
SV El Salvador#4569,80956K rec.——Roxana50
PK Pakistan#8063,846716 rec.—listedRukhsana61
VE Venezuela#41261,28432K rec.—9.3KRoxana59
PL Poland—32,148△11 rec.1 in 1.2K32KRoksana5
FR France—23,630△362 rec.1 in 2.9K24KRoksana71
US United States—20,88659K rec.1 in 16K21KRoxana320

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

Languages●

  • Spanish1.4M83%
  • English120K7%
  • Portuguese30K2%
  • Romanian23K1%
  • 9.3K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish1,411,57083%
English119,9007%
Portuguese29,6062%
Romanian23,1891%
9,2631%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Roxana is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name145K records spelled Roxana25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Venezuela, Ecuador, Costa Rica

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Roxãnã, Röxänä, Roxána, Řôxâňâ, Roxàna

  • Romanian given name32K records spelled Roxana5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United States, Spain, Italy

    Also written Roxána, Ròxànà

  • French given name11K records spelled Roxana36 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Brazil, Spain

    Languages: French, Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Roxane, 록산, Roxan, Rôxane, Roxañe

  • a separate given name10K records spelled Roxana2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Romania, Bolivia, United Kingdom

    Also written Roxána

  • Polish given name7.8K records spelled Roxana70 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Roksana, Роксана, Раксана, Roxanne, Роксанна

  • Lao given name3.5K records spelled Roxana4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Chile, Peru

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Röxänä, Róxáná

  • Finnish given name498 records spelled Roxana3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Romania, Peru

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Roxänä

54 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●

Roxana is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Spanish, Roxana, the wife of Alexander

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

  • In Spanish, Del persa, probablemente 'alba, aurora'.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

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

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In English, 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…

  • 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.

Over time●

0100200300400190019502000315 · 1991

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Roxana in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1882–2025
Yearrecords
18825
18845
18865
188911
18905
18926
18936
19025
19035
19045
19066
19075
19095
191210
19147
19159
19168
19178
191813
191912
192022
192116
19228
192312
192413
192518
192612
19278
19289
192915
19307
193113
193211
193319
193422
193522
193628
193714
193821
193928
194017
194127
194226
194336
194442
194539
194637
194741
194861
194969
195062
195165
195253
195350
195467
195575
195682
195745
195848
195941
196066
196165
196276
196376
196467
196567
196655
196773
196859
196986
197080
1971102
197290
197370
1974109
197591
1976109
1977100
197893
1979100
1980126
1981140
1982176
1983207
1984189
1985232
1986279
1987313
1988309
1989301
1990310
1991315
1992278
1993286
1994262
1995248
1996257
1997186
1998179
1999196
2000197
2001248
2002268
2003198
2004243
2005252
2006245
2007221
2008207
2009225
2010167
2011189
2012140
2013118
2014105
2015127
2016107
2017108
2018100
2019109
2020107
202197
202294
202388
202492
202577

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 126 years between 1882–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

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●

Attested in 72 sources across 41 countries.

Official registers attesting Roxana
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202021K#1,559
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202411K#198
VE Venezuelaasosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)—9.3K#215
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—6.8K#105
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2.6K#1,460
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2.3K#793
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
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022742—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—741#10,188
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—601#2,439
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—460#15,110

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 2026-09-12 data build · 726 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Roxana?
We estimate roughly 99 thousand people bear Roxana (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Roxana have the most bearers?
Roxana is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled roxana.
How common is Roxana compared with other names?
In Argentina, Roxana is the 214th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
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.
What does the name Roxana mean?
Recorded meaning: The wife of Alexander the Great.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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 214th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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