Given name & surname

Roxas

Roxas is a surname from Spanish. It is used in English, Spanish, Tagalog, and Hiligaynon.

Original SpanishRojas

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Roxas comes from Spanish.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2008. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Roxas through the years

Babies since 1880
372
372 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
2019
37 babies
2025
25
#4,230 for boys
2021–25 vs 2016–20
−19%
Easing
01020302025Highest share 201915
Roxas in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2008–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

In 2025, this name appeared in 25 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 4,230 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 18.8% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 37 in 2019. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,982 as a surname in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Roxas’s family of names

In Cebuano usage, Roxas as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with ROJAS. In Spanish usage, Roxas as a surname has a related form in PHILIPPINES. In Cebuano usage, Roxas as a surname has a related form in ROJAS.

Walk Roxas’s family in the name graph

RoxasRojasPhilippines

The ring: nicknames and forms.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Nicknames & forms 2

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

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Sibling ideas

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