Girl

Roxanne

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#1,315
170 girls
2015
#1,313
rank
1950
#297
rank

Roxanne: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 170 in 2025. Its best rank was #158 in 1954.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #158 in 1954; #1,315 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Roxanne in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#1,315 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1954, at #158.

Babies in 2025
170
Since 1880
59,587
Years on record
108

Babies named Roxanne, every year since 1880

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Girls

Roxanne: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 170 girls in 2025. Peak: #158 in 1954 · most girls in one year: 2,232 (1954).

About the name Roxanne

In 2025, 170 US girls were named Roxanne, making it the 1,315th most common girls’ name of the year, down 37 places from #1,278 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 182 girls named Roxanne in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #158, reached in 1954. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,232. For comparison, it was #1,313 in 2015 and #297 in 1950.

Social Security card records list Roxanne in 108 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1906 with 6 babies. In all, 59,587 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 16,618 babies named Roxanne.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,877 US girls were named Roxanne; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 215. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,455 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.

Among the states, Roxanne ranked highest in Iowa in 2025, at #663 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Rosanna (14,642 babies since 1880), Roxana (12,020 babies since 1880), Roxann (8,885 babies since 1880) and Roxane (5,179 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Rossana, Roxan and Roxine are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Ann, Rose and Roxie.

Meaning

Meaning not yet researched.

We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.

Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Rossana (892), Roxan (430), Roxine (238), Roxene (100), Roksana (46), Roxianne (27), Roxeann (16), Roxsanne (16), Roxeanne (10).

Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.

Nicknames

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Roxanne by state, 2025

US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 39 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
Iowa5#663—
Pennsylvania13#756—
Washington8#799#1,265
Wisconsin5#903—
Tennessee7#967—
Indiana6#1,012—
Colorado5#1,032#1,009
California25#1,081#803
Texas21#1,259#1,395
Ohio5#1,658—
Florida7#1,841#1,451
New York6#2,027#1,005

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
2025170#1,315——
2024182#1,278——
2023173#1,317——
2022169#1,372——
2021208#1,179——
2020215#1,125——
2019199#1,183——
2018183#1,267——
2017190#1,249——
2016188#1,284——
2015181#1,313——
2014211#1,170——
2013253#993——
2012245#1,036——
2011245#1,021——
2010236#1,053——
2009258#1,018——
2008234#1,106——
2007211#1,198——
2006207#1,181——
2005225#1,064——
2004222#1,046——
2003189#1,148——
2002197#1,083——
2001186#1,130——
2000225#951——
1999237#896——
1998256#833——
1997266#783——
1996330#672——
1995341#640——
1994376#599——
1993459#527——
1992585#431——
1991634#404——
1990803#336——
1989975#277——
19881,191#2188#5,642
19871,021#25011#4,189
1986811#302——
1985878#2855#7,377
1984749#317——
1983818#2885#7,122
1982879#278——
1981852#2855#7,074
1980870#285——
1979879#279——
1978760#308——
1977751#316——
1976679#329——
1975744#309——
1974722#317——
1973702#322——
1972883#288——
19711,036#279——
19701,013#2895#5,308
19691,090#268——
19681,015#267——
19671,005#268——
19661,186#245——
19651,271#242——
19641,324#241——
19631,527#220——
19621,515#219——
19611,724#2026#3,992
19601,920#193——
19591,707#2025#4,478
19581,586#205——
19571,774#198——
19562,114#1725#4,376
19552,092#165——
19542,232#158——
19531,763#179——
19521,578#187——
19511,080#234——
1950682#297——
1949331#436——
1948290#471——
1947270#503——
1946232#517——
1945198#519——
1944175#549——
1943179#566——
1942107#724——
1941115#662——
194090#733——
193966#865——
193862#903——
193754#949——
193653#949——
193530#1,350——
193426#1,474——
193324#1,543——
193223#1,623——
193115#2,192——
193010#3,019——
19299#3,352——
192810#3,127——
19278#3,818——
192612#2,850——
19259#3,615——
192310#3,317——
19226#4,926——
19207#4,326——
19197#4,186——
19186#4,731——
19135#3,619——
19066#1,917——

About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).