girls:
59.2k births since 1906
#523 (91st percentile)
boys:
55 births since 1956
#4531 (1st percentile)
overall:
59.2k births since 1906
#968 (88th percentile)
The name Roxanne is the #968 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 59,221 recorded births since 1906. This represents the 87.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #523 (90.9% percentile) for all time with 59,166 births since 1906. For boys, it ranks #4,531 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 55 births since 1956.
Roxanne first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1906 (1906 for girls and 1956 for boys). Birth data for Roxanne is available in 106 out of the 118 years between 1906 and 2023 (106 years for girls and 9 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 Roxanne has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Roxanne reached its peak popularity in 1954, achieving the 78.4% percentile (ranked #157) with 1,121 births per million. The name was most common in 1954, with 1,121 births per million (ranked 78.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Roxanne ranks #784 for girls (17.2% percentile) with 96 births per million, which is 8.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Roxanne reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #707) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1988.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Roxanne".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Roxanne. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 54.7% confident that Roxanne is pronounced as rahk-SAN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RAHK-SAN, at 18.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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