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Baby name
Roxane
Girl
Origin of the name
Roxane comes, through Latin and Greek, from the Old Persian Roxana, “shining, bright.” Roxana was the wife of Alexander the Great, and Roxane is the heroine of Cyrano de Bergerac.
Short-lived name
5,179births since 1880
1950sgeneration
No. 527rank at its peak, in 1956
Where babies named Roxane are born
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Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Roxane is most common in California (1.7 times), Illinois (1.6) and Michigan (1.5), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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