Entry № 8892 · Persian origin

Roxanne Roxanne — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ rok-SAN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Persian
Meaning
"Dawn, bright star"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Persian)

A name that means "dawn, bright star".

Roxanne comes from the Persian Roshanak (روشنک) — meaning "little luminous one" or "dawn," from the root roshan (light). The historical Roxana was the wife of Alexander the Great.

Roxanne is the heroine of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac (1897) — Cyrano's beloved cousin.

Dawn. Alexander the Great's wife. The Police song.

The name in its native script.

روشنک
Transliteration
Roshanak
Pronunciation
/ rɒkˈsæn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Roxanne stands.

Roxanne does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Roxannes before her.

Real people
Roxane Gay
American writer.
born 1974
In fiction
Roxanne
Heroine of Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac.
1897 play
Roxanne
Subject of The Police's 1978 song.
1978 song

Names connected to Roxanne.

The number behind Roxanne.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Roxanne reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.