Entry № 8929 · Other origin

Rukhshona Rukhshona — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ rook-SHO-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Bright-faced"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sogdian)

A name that means "bright-faced".

Rukhshona is from the Tajik Рухшона (Rukhshona) — from Persian rukh face + shona shining — bright-faced, radiant-faced. Rukhshona is one of the Tajik feminine names — central to traditional Persian-Tajik heritage connection to historical Roxana / Rōšanāk (c. Tajik feminine name reflecting Persian-Sogdian-Bactrian Indo-Iranian heritage.

Bright-faced.

The name in its native script.

Рухшона
Transliteration
Rukhshona
Pronunciation
/ ruːkˈʃoʊ.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Rukhshona stands.

Rukhshona 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.

Rukhshonas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Roxana / Rōšanāk
Sogdian-Bactrian princess + wife of Alexander the Great.

Names connected to Rukhshona.

The number behind Rukhshona.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rukhshona reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.