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
Showing
- 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
boys
Rank among boys' names. Fox has never cracked the top 700 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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First appearance
1888
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.
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Momentum · boys
Falling
- 295 spots since 2024 (#1,114 → #1,409)
- 489 spots since 2020 (#920 → #1,409)
- 374 spots since 2015 (#1,035 → #1,409)
- Biggest jump: 291 spots in 2016 (#1,035 → #744)
- Biggest drop: 111 spots in 2019 (#794 → #905)
Rise & fade · boys
128 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1888
- Peaked 2016 at #744 (327 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 9 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 6 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 2016–2021
Share of babies · boys
1 in 5,803
- 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%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 50.0% of all boys named Fox (1,944) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | #1,031 (1888) | #1,031 |
| 1890s | 0 | — | — |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 0 | — | — |
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| 1930s | 10 | #3,642 (1933) | #3,822 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
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| 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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