Roxana
No newborn girls have been given Roxana in the last two years, and fewer than a thousand Polish women carry it now. The name comes from Greek, meaning "bright, shining".
Roxana Pronunciation
What Roxana means
Where Roxana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Roxana reaches Polish from Greek, where the form Rhoxane carried the sense of bright and shining. Its best documented early bearer was Roxana of Bactria, who married Alexander the Great around 327 BC, and Greek historians kept the name in circulation long after her death. So the Greek origin is no guess. It is written into the sources.
In Polish dictionaries the meaning appears as jutrzenka, jaśniejąca, the light that comes just before dawn. That reading fits a name about shining, and it gives Roxana a link to the morning brightness rather than to full noon.
Roksana is the common Polish variant. On a school class register you may find both: one girl written as Roxana, the next as Roksana, the x and the ks doing the same work.
How many people are named Roxana
1 in 27194 women in Poland is named Roxana. 829 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1036 among female names.
Roxana's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Where Roxana is most popular
Roxana is most popular in Kuyavian-Pomeranian, 1876% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025).
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian2 girls born+1876%
Roxana as a middle name
Roxana is a first name for 829 women in Poland and a middle name for another 163, an 84/16 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 523rd, between Konstantyna (164) and Ashley (162).
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#521 Ryta165
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#522 Konstantyna164
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#523 Roxana163
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#524 Ashley162
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#525 Helene162