Roxanna
From Greek, carrying the sense of dawn and bright light. Fewer than seventy women in Poland answer to this spelling, so most Poles have never met one: the variant Roksana is the form you actually run into.
Roxanna Pronunciation
What Roxanna means
Where Roxanna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Roxanna reaches Polish through Greek, where Rhoxane gave shape to an older eastern word for the shining dawn. The meaning stayed close to that light: bright, shining, dawn. In Polish the same sense reads as jaśniejąca, jutrzenka.
The best-known bearer married Alexander the Great. Roxana of Bactria became his queen around 327 BC, and Greek writers fixed her name in the histories. Centuries later the name moved into English books and songs, which is where its English color comes from. Edmond Rostand gave his heroine the form Roxane in Cyrano de Bergerac. Daniel Defoe titled a whole novel Roxana in 1724.
Polish usage keeps it too, most often as the variant Roksana. A teacher reading a class register might land on Roksana, one bright name among the plainer ones. The sense holds: jaśniejąca, bright dawn.
How many people are named Roxanna
1 in 363610 women in Poland is named Roxanna. 62 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4671 among female names.
Roxanna's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Roxanna as a middle name
Roxanna is a first name for 62 women in Poland and a middle name for another 9, an 87/13 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2639th, between Roxane (9) and Rubina (9).
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#2637 Rosina9
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#2638 Roxane9
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#2639 Roxanna9
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#2640 Rubina9
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#2641 Rudo9