THE MEANING & THE CONTEXT
The story behind Roxanne
Roxanne is recorded as a female given name in Tagalog and Cebuano. The source gives a linguistic connection through English, specifically the form Roxanne.
Pronunciation & syllables
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Tagalog
- /ɾokˈsan/Standard-Tagalog
- [ɾok̠ˈsan̪]Standard-Tagalog
Ro · xanne2 source divisions
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Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
TagalogEtymology & source
Borrowed from English Roxanne, variant of Roxane, from French Roxane, from Ancient Greek Ῥωξᾱ́νη (Rhōxā́nē).
a female given name from English
Wiktionary: Roxanne (Tagalog) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
CebuanoEtymology & source
Borrowed from English Roxanne, from French Roxane, from Ancient Greek Ῥωξᾱ́νη (Rhōxā́nē), from Old Persian *rauxšnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.
a female given name from English
Wiktionary: Roxanne (Cebuano) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
EnglishEtymology & source
A female given name from Persian; a spelling variant of Roxane, fairly popular since the 1930s.
Wiktionary: Roxanne (English) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
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People with the name Roxanne
Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Roxanne Guinoo
Filipino actress
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Roxanne Ashley Yu
swimmer
The record establishes the name association, not the person’s intended meaning, pronunciation or ancestry. Descriptions are attributed to Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Use in Philippine-linked records
Wikidata
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distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Roxanne Guinoo, Roxanne Ashley Yu
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Roxanne in the birth records
Exact spelling, stated year, published top-ten tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Available publications: 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. No 2021 count is inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Related forms & spellings
Related forms may have their own language histories. They are not included in this spelling’s PSA count.
Similar names to Roxanne
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Joanne♀Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Johanne♀Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Rodante·Given name documented in Philippine-linked records; lexical meaning not established here
- Rosanna♀Etymology uncertain; see source accounts
- Anne♀Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Arianne♀Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Dianne♀Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Janne♂♀Given name documented in Philippine-linked records; lexical meaning not established here
What rhymes with Roxanne?
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Explore Roxanne further
Follow the sources
- Wikidata given-name item Q18611811 — Roxanne (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Roxanne Guinoo (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q18611811 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wikidata — Roxanne Ashley Yu (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q18611811 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Roxanne (Tagalog) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Roxanne (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Roxanne (English) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.