Fox
Fox is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 192 births. Its best rank was 744th, in 2016.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1920.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2016327 births
- Best rank
- #744in 2016
- Since 1888
- 3,857people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,760 boys have been named Fox in the United States since 1888, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2016, with 327 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2017, and the 2010s alone account for 52%. It has spent 6 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 97 girls have also been given it, 2.5% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2016, its biggest year
Fox was the 744th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2016 were Noah, Liam, William, Mason and James. See all of 2016.
Names that rose and fell with Fox
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Graysonpeak 2017
- Amenpeak 2019
- Rikerpeak 2015
- Daxonpeak 2017
- Titanpeak 2017
- Remingtonpeak 2019
- Henrikpeak 2018
- Greysonpeak 2017
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.