Name Awesome

Fox

#1,411 in 2025Boys' name

A vulpine animal

Fox has been given to 3,988 babies in the U.S. since 1888. In 2025 it ranked #1,411 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 327 recorded.

Babies named Fox, 2025

1 in 25,700

Fox over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fox: meaning, origin, and history

A vulpine animal

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fox means

Fox means “a vulpine animal”, associated with fox.

Origin, language, and formation

Fox is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,891 boys were recorded with the name Fox between 1888 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 327 in 2016; its best national rank was #744 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #920 in 2020 to #1,411 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,035 in 2015 to #1,411 in 2025.

In the United States, 97 girls were recorded with the name Fox between 2014 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2016; its best national rank was #8,654 in 2021.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Fox?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 25,700
129 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 13,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,411
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
17,814 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fox sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 17,814 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fox. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Foxs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fox was born before 2017 — so the typical Fox is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,876
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (1,944).

Is Fox rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−294
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−491
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−376
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.66×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
39.4%
Peak was 2016 (327)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#744
2016

Where Fox is used

Across 2016–2025, Fox was most concentrated in Oregon — about 1 in 2,273 boys, against 1 in 7,599 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 33,333).

344 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oregon1 in 2,273
  2. 2Washington1 in 2,941
  3. 3Utah1 in 3,030
  4. 4Wisconsin1 in 4,762
  5. 5Arizona1 in 5,000
  6. 6Colorado1 in 5,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 5,263
  8. 8California1 in 6,250

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Fox around the world

Where Fox ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #856
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2011–2024
    #619
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    2019–2019
    #418
    in 2019
  • Ireland
    2021–2021
    #631
    in 2021
  • France
    2022–2022
    #6,881
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #1,105
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1997–2013
    #389
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Fox

People whose public names include Fox, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Fox by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,411
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 491
Best rank ever
#744
2016
Peak year
2016
327 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,891
Count in 2025
129

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,654
2021
Peak year
2016
12 that year
First recorded
2014
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
97
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Fox

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Foxx

Names with a curve like Fox

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Fox, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

HenrikAxlDashKaseJadAhmirTitanEasonGraysenDeckerAlistairAksel

Sibling names for Fox

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

Explore around Fox

Top names of 2016, Fox's peak yearThe 2010s in fullOther names that peaked in 2016Boys' names starting with FAnimal-Inspired NamesBohemian Boy NamesNature Boy NamesNature Names