In 2025, 60 US girls were named Roxanna, making it the 2,856th most common girls’ name of the year, up 413 places from #3,269 in 2024. That is 11 more than the 49 girls named Roxanna in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #575, reached in 1954. The most girls given the name in a single year was 316, in 1988. For comparison, it was #2,056 in 2015 and #705 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Roxanna in 140 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 9 babies. In all, 13,466 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 2,099 babies named Roxanna.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 695 US girls were named Roxanna; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 91. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,788 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Roxanna ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,726 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Roxana (12,020 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Roxsana are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Ann, Rose and Roxie.