Roksana
Its Slavic root means dawn, the first brightening Poles call jutrzenka. Around 32,000 women carry it, yet it's slipping out of use: familiar enough to place, but rarely given to girls now.
Roksana Pronunciation
Roksana is pronounced rok-SAH-nah (/rɔkˈsana/).
What Roksana means
Where Roksana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Roksana travels with a variant that flattens its shape into Latin script: Roxana. The Polish spelling keeps the k where the x would sit. Both point to one short meaning, dawn, and to the brightening the Poles call jutrzenka.
The most famous bearer lived long before the Polish form existed. Roxana, a Bactrian noblewoman, married Alexander the Great around 327 BC, and Greek chronicles carried her name as a word for brightness. Polish families met the name later, through that sense of jaśniejąca, the one who grows bright.
In a Polish class register the name sits neat and unmistakable. A teacher reads Roksana aloud. No one asks how to spell it.
The origin sorts with Slavic names in the modern Polish mind, while the meaning stays fixed: dawn and bright.
How many people are named Roksana
1 in 702 women in Poland is named Roksana. 32,097 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #235 among female names.
Roksana's popularity over time
60 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #318 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #235 name among living women, even as it slips to #318 among newborns.
Where Roksana is most popular
Roksana is most popular in Subcarpathian, 63% above the national average (79 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Pomeranian (+37%) and Lubusz (+35%). It is least common in Masovian and Opole, 39% and 35% below average respectively.
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Subcarpathian79 girls born+63%
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Pomeranian81 girls born+37%
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Lubusz27 girls born+35%
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Świętokrzyskie29 girls born+30%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian52 girls born+18%
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Silesian106 girls born+16%
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Łódź57 girls born+12%
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West Pomeranian35 girls born+3%
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Lublin41 girls born−1%
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Warmian-Masurian28 girls born−3%
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Podlaskie25 girls born−5%
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Greater Poland82 girls born−5%
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Lesser Poland85 girls born−7%
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Lower Silesian43 girls born−32%
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Opole12 girls born−35%
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Masovian87 girls born−39%
Roksana as a middle name
Roksana is a first name for 32,097 women in Poland and a middle name for another 7,416, an 81/19 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 124th, between Adrianna (7,536) and Magda (7,098).
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122
7,804Rita
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123
7,536Adrianna
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1247,416Roksana
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125
7,098Magda
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126
7,012Luiza
When Roksana celebrates name day
Roksana appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar. The main date is 15 July.