Foxx
Foxx was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,468 among boys’ names; 287 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Foxx by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Foxx?
#8,468 among boys’ names, 2025
Foxx fell from #6,447 in 2015 to #8,468 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.8 to 5.3 per million.
17 babies in 2021, the peak
Foxx peaked in 2021, when 17 boys were given it, #5,405 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 53% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,468 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,943 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,280 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 17 | #5,503 | 9.7 |
| 2021 | 17 | #5,405 | 9.7 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,748 | 7.0 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,147 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,465 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,815 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,290 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #6,447 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,737 | 5.2 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,735 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,726 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 14 | #6,041 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,228 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 13 | #6,551 | 6.6 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,519 | 6.4 |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,962 | 2.4 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,079 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,665 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,380 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 10 | #6,882 | 5.1 |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,765 | 3.1 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,659 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,479 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,446 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,060 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,578 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Foxx a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Foxx has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Foxx: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Foxx, and how old are they?
An estimated 284 Americans named Foxx and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 220 people named Foxx (10 women and girls, 210 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 217 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,275 babies since 1880, Foxx is the second most given (6.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 138 babies (6.5%), again the second 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 Foxx
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 Foxx and names like it
- Compare Foxx and FoxBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sFoxx peaked in 2021.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Foxx.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Foxx alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with FMost given first.