Fox
Fox was given to 129 boys in 2025, #1,411 among boys’ names; 3,988 Americans have been recorded with it since 1888 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,940 Americans named Fox and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Fox by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Fox mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Fox is “a male given name.” Its etymology gives the sense “a vulpine animal” (fox).
(surname): From fox (“a vulpine animal”)
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Fox?
#1,411 among boys’ names, 2025
Fox fell from #1,035 in 2015 to #1,411 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.10 to 0.08 per 1,000.
339 babies in 2016, the peak
Fox peaked in 2016, when 339 babies were given it (327 boys, #744 among boys’ names). The 129 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 129 | #1,411 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 192 | #1,117 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 190 | #1,114 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 221 | #1,008 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 242 | #933 | 0.14 |
| 2020 | 243 | #920 | 0.14 |
| 2019 | 243 | #906 | 0.14 |
| 2018 | 285 | #795 | 0.16 |
| 2017 | 306 | #767 | 0.17 |
| 2016 | 327 | #744 | 0.17 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 195 | #1,035 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 164 | #1,155 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 151 | #1,189 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 96 | #1,620 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 87 | #1,707 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 90 | #1,701 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 91 | #1,710 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 81 | #1,815 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 65 | #2,099 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 41 | #2,802 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 55 | #2,188 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 53 | #2,194 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 41 | #2,517 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 28 | #3,207 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 44 | #2,285 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 38 | #2,489 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 46 | #2,073 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 42 | #2,167 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,069 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 28 | #2,694 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 19 | #3,465 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #3,836 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,204 | under 0.01 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,086 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Fox a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,988 Americans recorded as Fox, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 129 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Fox: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Fox, and how old are they?
3,940 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,988 Americans ever recorded as Fox. The median Fox alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 2,998 people named Fox (163 women and girls, 2,835 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,754 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 46 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 927 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,960 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Fox born?
The states with the most babies named Fox are California, Texas and Utah, with 66% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Utah is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 20 | #1,050 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 11 | #1,589 | 0.6× |
| Utah | 7 | #582 | 1.3× |
| New York | 5 | #1,848 | 0.5× |
| Oregon | 5 | #644 | 2.3× |
| Arizona | 5 | #965 | 0.9× |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #733 | 0.3× |
Where Fox is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Fox is most over-represented in Oregon: since 1910 it was given 2.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Fox with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,275 babies since 1880, Fox is the most given (93% of them). In 2025 it was given to 129 of their 138 babies (93%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Fox
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Fox and names like it
- Compare Fox and FoxxBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sFox peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Fox since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Fox.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Fox alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with FMost given first.