Roxanne comes from the Persian Roshanak (روشنک) — meaning "little luminous one" or "dawn," from the root roshan (light). The historical Roxana was the wife of Alexander the Great.
Roxanne is the heroine of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac (1897) — Cyrano's beloved cousin. The Police's 1978 song Roxanne made the name a 20th-century rock standard.
Roxanne reduces to seven — the number of luminous independence.