Given name
Roksana
Roksana is a feminine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Polish and Turkish.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
In Russian use, Roksana shares an earlier linguistic root with Roxane. Roxane has been associated with Latin and Persian naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1994. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. In Russian use, Roksana shares an earlier linguistic root with Roxane. The history of Roxane gives this family its wider story. A form of Roxane is recorded as the name of Alexander the Great’s wife, the daughter of Oxyartes of Bactria. A later literary association is Daniel Defoe’s heroine Roxana; the two contexts belong to different periods of the name’s history.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Roksana through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 46
- 0 boys · 46 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 8 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 9 in 2007. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 509 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Roksana’s family of names
In Polish usage, Roksana has a diminutive in Roksanka. Roksana shares a linguistic root with Roxane. In Turkish usage, Roksana has a conventional equivalent in the English form Roxana.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Roksana has relatives in 13 languages.
11 related names in 13 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 13
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Lunadoublet · Polish
- Roxanneequivalent
- RoxanaEnglish, Slovak
- Rosannaequivalent
- Roxanecognate · French, Dutch
- RossanaItalian
- Roshanakequivalent
- ΡωξάνηGreek
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See also 6
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Roksana
- Roksana WęgielPolish singerborn 2005
- Roksana ZasinaPolish sportspersonborn 1988
- Roksana BabajanRussian actor and singerborn 1946
- Roksana KhudoyarovaUzbekistani triple jumperborn 2001
- Roksana BahramitashIranian-Canadian sociologistborn 1956
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