Roxane f
English and French: from Latin Roxana, Greek Roxanē, recorded as the name of the wife of Alexander the Great. She was the daughter of Oxyartes the Bactrian, and her name is presumably of Persian origin; it is said to mean ‘dawn’. In English literature it is the name of the heroine of a novel by Defoe (1724), a beautiful adventuress who, deserted by her husband, enjoys a glittering career as a courtesan, but eventually dies in a state of penitence, having been thrown into prison for debt.
Variant: Roxanne.
Cognate: Russian: Roksana.
First names dictionary. 2012.