Roksana as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Roksana

What is the meaning of the name Roksana ?

The baby name Roksana is a Female name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced English: /rɒkˈsɑːnə/ (rok-SAH-nə),Polish: /rɔkˈsana/ (rok-SA-na).

Roksana is Latin, Persian in Origin.

Roksana is a Slavic spelling of a name ultimately from Old Persian Raoxšna, rendered in Greek as Rhoxane and Latin as Roxana; the Persian form Roshanak combines roshan "light, bright" with the diminutive -ak, yielding the sense "little light" or "shining, dawnlike." Through classical transmission, the root meaning remained "bright" or "radiant."

Known historically as the name of Alexander the Great's Bactrian wife, the form spread across the Hellenistic world and later into Europe. Roksana appears in Polish and Ukrainian usage (Роксана), with common short forms Roksi and Roxy. Parallel and related variants include Roxana (English/Romanian/Spanish), Roxane and Roxanne (French/English), Roxanna, and the Persian Roshanak and South Asian Rukhsana. Literary visibility came via Racine's Roxane and Defoe's Roxana, while the "x" spellings dominate in Western Europe; the "k" of Roksana reflects Slavic phonology without altering the luminous meaning.