Roxie

Where Roxie comes from

Roxie hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #195 among girls — 62 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Peak, #177
    72 babies named Roxie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1910
    Roxie Collie Laybourne born
    American ornithologist
  4. 1929
    Roxie Roker born
    Bahamian–American actress
  5. 1982
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,581.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Roxie Roker · Bahamian–American actress, 1929–1995
  • Roxie Collie Laybourne · American ornithologist, 1910–2003

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.