# Fox (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/fox/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | “a vulpine animal” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,988 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 3,891 / 97 (2% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 946, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

* (surname): From fox (“a vulpine animal”)

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 7 | 13,540 |
| 2015 | 6 | 15,127 |
| 2016 | 12 | 9,070 |
| 2017 | 10 | 10,212 |
| 2018 | 10 | 10,060 |
| 2019 | 9 | 10,764 |
| 2020 | 7 | 12,590 |
| 2021 | 12 | 8,659 |
| 2022 | 9 | 10,647 |
| 2023 | 9 | 10,602 |
| 2024 | 6 | 14,045 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 87 | 1,707 |
| 2012 | 96 | 1,621 |
| 2013 | 151 | 1,189 |
| 2014 | 164 | 1,155 |
| 2015 | 195 | 1,035 |
| 2016 | 327 | 744 |
| 2017 | 306 | 767 |
| 2018 | 285 | 795 |
| 2019 | 243 | 906 |
| 2020 | 243 | 920 |
| 2021 | 242 | 933 |
| 2022 | 221 | 1,008 |
| 2023 | 190 | 1,114 |
| 2024 | 192 | 1,117 |
| 2025 | 129 | 1,411 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 3 | 5,730 |
| 2017 | 3 | 5,765 |
| 2018 | 5 | 3,985 |
| 2020 | 3 | 5,493 |
| 2021 | 4 | 4,634 |
| 2023 | 3 | 5,687 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 15 | 1,522 |
| 2012 | 20 | 1,270 |
| 2013 | 21 | 1,183 |
| 2014 | 32 | 916 |
| 2015 | 44 | 740 |
| 2016 | 75 | 521 |
| 2017 | 81 | 495 |
| 2018 | 88 | 460 |
| 2019 | 94 | 435 |
| 2020 | 75 | 505 |
| 2021 | 74 | 526 |
| 2022 | 71 | 540 |
| 2023 | 46 | 728 |
| 2024 | 56 | 664 |
| 2025 | 37 | 856 |

## In other languages

- Chinese: 福克斯, 狐
- Russian: Фокс
- Finnish: Kettu, Repo
- French: Renard, Goupil
- German: Fuchs
- Greek: Αλεπούς

## People named Fox

- Fox Maule-Ramsay, 11th Earl of Dalhousie, British politician (1801-1874)
- Claiborne Fox Jackson, 15th Governor of Missouri (1806-1862)
- Roy Lichtenstein, American pop artist (1923–1997)
- Robert Bacher, American nuclear physicist (1905–2004)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.