Fox

Where Fox comes from

* (surname): From fox (“a vulpine animal”)
— Wiktionary's entry for Fox
Along the way
  1. 1801
    Fox Maule-Ramsay, 11th Earl of Dalhousie born
    British politician
  2. 1874
    Fox Conner born
    United States Army general
  3. 1888
    First appearance
    #1,031 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2016
    Peak, #744
    327 babies named Fox — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2025
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,409.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
Namesakes
  • Fox Maule-Ramsay, 11th Earl of Dalhousie · British politician, 1801–1874
  • Fox Conner · United States Army general, 1874–1951
  • Fox Harris · American actor, 1936–1988
  • Fox Butterfield · American journalist, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner, born 1939
  • Fox Jackson-Keen · English actor, singer and dancer, born 1995

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.