Roxane
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in French: Roxana (the wife of Alexander the Great)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʁɔksan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Roxane is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 4.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 6.2K
- CACanada≈1 in 20K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 323 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Côte d’Ivoire, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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 Greek. See main dictionary. Also: Roxanne. $
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Roxane is read(measured from records)
Roxane is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French46%
Roxana (the wife of Alexander the Great)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Du persan Roshanak, « brillante, lumineuse »; nom porté par l’épouse d’Alexandre le Grand. Fête: inconnue.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Du persan, « brillante comme l’aurore ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Étymologie obscure; l’épisode évoque un registre lié à un mariage, une naissance ou un décès.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
- English39%
A female given name from Old Persian.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Roxane 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #585 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | 24K | Roxane | 323 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Roxane | 17 |
| US United States | — | 4,773 | 1 in 70K | 4.8K | Roxane | 189 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Roxane | 28 |
| BE Belgium | #870 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | 31 | Roxane | 63 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 1 | Roxane | 115 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Roxane | 51 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Roxane is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
From Greek. See main dictionary. Also: Roxanne. $
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Roxane Gatling Gilmoreb. 1954USAmerican academic (1954-2024)
- Roxane Wilsonb. 1965AUAustralian actress
- Roxane Gayb. 1974USAmerican writer
- Jacki R. Chanb. 1980USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Roxane Mesquidab. 1981FRFrench actress
- Roxane Knetemannb. 1987NLDutch racing cyclist
- Roxane Haywardb. 1991ZASouth African actress
- Roxane Duranb. 1993FRFrench actress
- Roxane Arnalb. 1995FRFrench actress
- Roxane Cabassutb. 1998FRactress
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 60 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 24K | #87 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.8K | #4,059 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2024 | 31 | #310 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2022 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 6 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4 | #4,059 |
| FR France | Dictionnaire Généalogique des Prénoms (Athias, 2007) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Le Grand Guide des Prénoms | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Roxane come from?
- From Greek. See main dictionary. Also: Roxanne. $ Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What does the name Roxane mean?
- In French, Roxana (the wife of Alexander the Great)
- Is Roxane a male or female name?
- Roxane 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 Roxane have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Roxane in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled roxane.
- What are other forms of the name Roxane?
- In the etymology graph, Roxana, Rosana and Roxanne are forms of the same name in other languages; Roxie and Roxy are recorded short or pet forms.
- How common is the name Roxane?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,773 people named Roxane in 2020, about 1 in 70 thousand residents.
- How common is Roxane compared with other names?
- In France, Roxane is the 585th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Roxane?
- A machine transcription gives /ʁɔksan/ (IPA) for French.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/roxaneThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Roxane” — the 585th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.