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.
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 2014
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oregon#497 · 1 in 2,621
- Iowa#544 · 1 in 3,155
- Maryland#680 · 1 in 4,704
- Washington#690 · 1 in 4,538
- Arizona#799 · 1 in 6,265
Best ever in a state: #206 in Maine, 2016.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | #497 | 7 | 1 in 2,621 |
| Iowa | #544 | 5 | 1 in 3,155 |
| Maryland | #680 | 6 | 1 in 4,704 |
| Washington | #690 | 8 | 1 in 4,538 |
| Arizona | #799 | 6 | 1 in 6,265 |
| Missouri | #848 | 5 | 1 in 6,472 |
| Michigan | #873 | 7 | 1 in 6,981 |
| Ohio | #896 | 8 | 1 in 7,536 |
| California | #959 | 23 | 1 in 10,056 |
| Illinois | #1,069 | 7 | 1 in 9,486 |
| Georgia | #1,081 | 6 | 1 in 9,169 |
| Texas | #1,293 | 13 | 1 in 14,350 |
| New York | #1,428 | 7 | 1 in 14,676 |
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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
- 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)
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
Fox in 2014
Top girls' names in 2014
Top boys' names in 2014
More about 2014
girls
1,786,355 girls got a published name in 2014; 1 in 255,194 of them was named Fox, which outranked 32.0% of the 19,232 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #11,931Zyleigh8
- #11,931Zymira8
- #11,931Zynae8
- #13,069Fox7
- #13,069Aadvika7
- #13,069Aaleahya7
- #13,069Aaliyahrose7
- #14,558Aalaiyah6
- #14,558Aalana6
- #14,558Aalanah6
Tied with 1,488 names at #13,069; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 3,632Aranza#4,243 → #611
- ↑ 576Montserrat#1,148 → #572
- ↑ 573Monserrat#1,165 → #592
- ↑ 463Maisie#1,116 → #653
- ↑ 419Ariadne#1,220 → #801
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,920,871 boys got a published name in 2014; 1 in 11,713 of them was named Fox, which outranked 91.8% of the 14,081 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,147Shmuel165
- #1,147Torin165
- #1,147Zayd165
- #1,153Fox164
- #1,153Deegan164
- #1,153Dion164
- #1,153Koda164
- #1,158Colter163
- #1,158Jaceon163
- #1,158Linus163
Tied with 4 names at #1,153; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.