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Baby name
Roxanne
Girl
Origin of the name
Roxanne comes from the Old Persian Roxana, “shining, bright.” Roxana was the wife of Alexander the Great.
Classic name
59,532births since 1880
1950sgeneration
No. 158rank at its peak, in 1954
Where babies named Roxanne are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Roxanne is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Roxanne is most common in Hawaii (3.7 times), Minnesota (2.6) and North Dakota (2.5), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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