girls:
3.7k births since 1882
#2823 (51st percentile)
boys:
103 births since 1914
#4483 (2nd percentile)
overall:
3.8k births since 1882
#4428 (43rd percentile)
The name Roxy is the #4,428 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,848 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 42.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 42.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,823 (50.6% percentile) for all time with 3,745 births since 1882. For boys, it ranks #4,483 (2.2% percentile) for all time with 103 births since 1914.
Roxy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (1882 for girls and 1914 for boys). Birth data for Roxy is available in 136 out of the 142 years between 1882 and 2023 (136 years for girls and 15 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 Roxy has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.3% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Roxy reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 14.6% percentile (ranked #819) with 72 births per million. The name was most common in 1883, with 108 births per million (ranked 3.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Roxy ranks #896 for girls (5.4% percentile) with 32 births per million, which is 29.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Roxy reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #539) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 9 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1953.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Roxy".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Roxy. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.5% confident that Roxy is pronounced as RAHK-see, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RAWK-see, at 12.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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