girls:
11.8k births since 1882
#1447 (75th percentile)
boys:
26 births since 1986
#4560 (1st percentile)
overall:
11.8k births since 1882
#2418 (69th percentile)
The name Roxana is the #2,418 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 11,848 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 68.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 68.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,447 (74.7% percentile) for all time with 11,822 births since 1882. For boys, it ranks #4,560 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 26 births since 1986.
Roxana first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (1882 for girls and 1986 for boys). Birth data for Roxana is available in 124 out of the 142 years between 1882 and 2023 (124 years for girls and 4 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Roxana has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Roxana reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 36.7% percentile (ranked #508) with 167 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 167 births per million (ranked 36.7% percentile). Despite a low point in 2018, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Roxana ranks #864 for girls (8.8% percentile) with 50 births per million, which is 30.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Roxana reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #751) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1993.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Roxana".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Roxana. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 50.0% confident that Roxana is pronounced as rahk-SA-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is rawk-SA-nuh, at 16.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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