Roxy

Where Roxy comes from

Roxy 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. 1882
    First appearance
    #740 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1883
    Peak, #536
    13 babies named Roxy — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1884
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,024.
  4. 1982
    Roxy DeVille born
    American pornographic actress
  5. 1983
    Roxy Reynolds born
    American pornographic actress
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Roxy Reynolds · American pornographic actress, born 1983
  • Roxy DeVille · American pornographic actress, born 1982
  • Roxy Panther · Hungarian pornographic actress, born 1987
  • Roxy Dekker · Dutch singer-songwriter, born 2005
  • Roxy Paine · American sculptor, born 1966

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.