Fox
- Last seen for girls in 2024 at #13,477
- #1,409 for boys in 2025, 129 births
- Given to boys 97.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2016 · 327 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,891since 1888
Fox over time
Rank among boys' names. Fox has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it. Not on the chart: 5 boys in 1888, 5 boys in 1930, 5 boys in 1933 (see the data table).
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,409 | 129 | |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #1,114 | 192 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | #1,111 | 190 |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | #1,007 | 221 |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 | #933 | 242 |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | #920 | 243 |
| 2019 | #10,473 | 9 | #905 | 243 |
| 2018 | #9,806 | 10 | #794 | 285 |
| 2017 | #9,943 | 10 | #767 | 306 |
| 2016 | #8,875 | 12 | #744 | 327 |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #1,035 | 195 |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | #1,153 | 164 |
| 2013 | — | #1,186 | 151 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,617 | 96 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,703 | 87 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,697 | 90 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,708 | 91 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,813 | 81 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,094 | 65 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,784 | 41 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,182 | 55 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,193 | 53 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,507 | 41 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,188 | 28 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,277 | 44 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,476 | 38 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,063 | 46 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,157 | 42 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,060 | 43 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,679 | 28 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,432 | 19 | |
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| 1888 | — | #1,031 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Fox! It came in at #1,031, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1888–1994, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Fox is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Utah#561 · 1 in 2,809
- Oregon#604 · 1 in 3,012
- Oklahoma#698 · 1 in 3,536
- Arizona#927 · 1 in 6,545
- California#1,040 · 1 in 8,774
Best ever in a state: #206 in Maine, 2016.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Utah | #561 | 7 | 1 in 2,809 |
| Oregon | #604 | 5 | 1 in 3,012 |
| Oklahoma | #698 | 5 | 1 in 3,536 |
| Arizona | #927 | 5 | 1 in 6,545 |
| California | #1,040 | 20 | 1 in 8,774 |
| Texas | #1,555 | 11 | 1 in 15,914 |
| New York | #1,760 | 5 | 1 in 16,885 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Fox
- 489 spots since 2020 (#920 → #1,409)
- Biggest jump: 291 spots in 2016
- Biggest drop: 111 spots in 2019
- Debuted 1888
- Peaked 2016 at #744 (327 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 2016–2021
- Highest: 1 in 5,803 boys born in 2016 were named Fox (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 13,241 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 50.0% of all boys named Fox (1,944) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1880s | 5 | #1,031 (1888) | #1,031 |
| 1890s | 0 | — | — |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 0 | — | — |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 10 | #3,642 (1933) | #3,822 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 178 | #2,060 (1997) | #2,478 |
| 2000s | 537 | #1,708 (2009) | #2,322 |
| 2010s | 1,944 | #744 (2016) | #1,160 |
| 2020s | 1,217 | #920 (2020) | #1,082 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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