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Roxann

Gender
Girl
Say it
rok-SAN
Origin
Persian
US rank, 2025
#13,203 for girls

Roxann is a girls' name of Persian origin, meaning “bright; shining”. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).

What does Roxann mean?

Persian: spelling of Roxanne, via Greek Rhoxane

“bright; shining”

Roxana, a Bactrian noblewoman, became the wife of Alexander the Great.

Is Roxann a girl's or a boy's name?

Roxann is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Roxann in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2009, with 7 girls.

1998Busiest: 7 in 20092018
Roxann in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20183#5,896
20170–
20161#7,664
20150–
20143#5,920
20134#4,953
20124#5,058
20111#7,717
20105#4,220
20097#3,201
20081#7,383
20070–
20060–
20050–
20040–
20030–
20020–
20010–
20000–
19990–
19983#4,026

How popular is Roxann in the US?

Rank in 2025
13,203rd among girls
Babies in 2025
6 about 1 in 270,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Roxann, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 1955, with 426 girls. It first appears in the records in 1932.

Half of all the girls named Roxann in the US since 1880 were born between 1955 and 1973, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 182 girls in the US were given Roxann or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,121, up from #13,203 for this spelling alone.

1932Busiest: 426 in 19552025
Roxann in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20256#13,203
20245#15,288
20239#10,307
20229#10,377
20219#10,287
20200–
20197#12,442
201810#9,801
20176#14,120
20169#10,855
20156#14,477
201413#8,480
201311#9,607
201219#6,573
201123#5,725
201022#5,975
200911#9,971
200824#5,747
200717#7,390
200612#9,282
200513#8,325
200411#9,259
200316#6,880
200218#6,124
200117#6,317
200013#7,574
199918#5,655
199814#6,714
199713#6,839
199620#4,878
199525#4,094
199432#3,443
199334#3,285
199227#3,860
199142#2,784
199053#2,340
198971#1,846
198863#1,930
198795#1,403
1986116#1,203
1985125#1,143
198491#1,332
198388#1,358
1982117#1,171
1981100#1,277
1980113#1,183
1979133#1,047
197891#1,314
197789#1,303
197696#1,182
1975106#1,100
1974111#1,063
1973114#1,028
1972112#1,038
1971167#828
1970193#758
1969170#786
1968174#754
1967167#761
1966220#648
1965214#673
1964227#677
1963257#632
1962250#638
1961321#550
1960334#529
1959312#550
1958297#569
1957329#526
1956391#472
1955426#428
1954380#451
1953339#459
1952264#519
1951243#536
1950171#651
194984#972
194876#1,000
194769#1,067
194655#1,147
194553#1,079
194443#1,204
194337#1,341
194233#1,413
194127#1,501
194035#1,242
193916#2,038
193822#1,650
193713#2,317
193617#1,873
19358#3,154
19349#2,922
193311#2,539
19326#3,899

Nicknames for Roxann

Names like Roxann

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Robyn, Heidi, Connie, Erin, Darcie, Marnie, Aoibheann, Holly, Renee, Penny, Raegan, Nancy

Other spellings of Roxann

Roxanne, Roxane

Names related to Roxann

Roxana, Roxanna

More Persian names

Jasper, Esther, Jasmine, Casper, Cyrus, Yasmin, Darius, Zorawar, Kiyan, Rumi, Yasmine, Kasper, Mahnoor, Dario, Arian, Arman

Every Persian name

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Roxann: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/roxann, updated 20 October 2026.