Roxane is the French form of Roxana — from the Old Persian Roxšana (دختر روشن, "dawn, luminous, bright"). Roxana of Bactria (c. 340-310 BCE) — wife of Alexander the Great; their son Alexander IV inherited Alexander's empire and was murdered with her in 310 BCE. Her 2017 memoir Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body — about her own assault and her relationship with her body — was a New York Times bestseller. Roxane is the beloved of Cyrano de Bergerac in Edmond Rostand's 1897 play.
Subject of countless 2010s American cultural-criticism profiles.
Roxane does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Roxane reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.