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 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oregon#378 · 1 in 1,662
- Colorado#449 · 1 in 2,150
- Iowa#493 · 1 in 2,394
- Missouri#499 · 1 in 2,759
- Maryland#558 · 1 in 3,298
Best ever in a state: #206 in Maine, 2016.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | #378 | 10 | 1 in 1,662 |
| Colorado | #449 | 12 | 1 in 2,150 |
| Iowa | #493 | 6 | 1 in 2,394 |
| Missouri | #499 | 11 | 1 in 2,759 |
| Maryland | #558 | 8 | 1 in 3,298 |
| Washington | #605 | 10 | 1 in 3,450 |
| Massachusetts | #630 | 6 | 1 in 4,714 |
| Michigan | #648 | 11 | 1 in 4,172 |
| Utah | #656 | 5 | 1 in 3,900 |
| Wisconsin | #676 | 6 | 1 in 4,289 |
| California | #699 | 37 | 1 in 5,581 |
| Pennsylvania | #732 | 10 | 1 in 5,727 |
| Tennessee | #768 | 7 | 1 in 5,072 |
| Arizona | #783 | 6 | 1 in 5,698 |
| Ohio | #787 | 10 | 1 in 5,731 |
| Minnesota | #796 | 5 | 1 in 5,334 |
| Illinois | #824 | 10 | 1 in 5,967 |
| Florida | #885 | 14 | 1 in 6,846 |
| Virginia | #885 | 6 | 1 in 6,790 |
| Indiana | #921 | 5 | 1 in 6,793 |
| Georgia | #931 | 8 | 1 in 6,524 |
| Texas | #1,039 | 19 | 1 in 9,204 |
| New York | #1,127 | 10 | 1 in 9,574 |
| North Carolina | #1,139 | 5 | 1 in 10,032 |
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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 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 170,107 of them was named Fox, which outranked 46.0% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #9,151Zula11
- #9,151Zyasia11
- #9,151Zyiah11
- #9,806Fox10
- #9,806Aaditri10
- #9,806Aaleiya10
- #9,806Aamani10
- #10,545Aadaya9
- #10,545Aafiya9
- #10,545Aalaya9
Tied with 738 names at #9,806; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 6,372 of them was named Fox, which outranked 94.4% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).