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    The surname Foxe

    A surname, carried by 271 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex F200

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Foxe is more common than 55.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 271 people named Foxe in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 1,139,282 Americans. That is down 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 305.

    #71,886
    rank among US surnames
    271
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    -11.1%
    change since 2000 (was #61,544)

    Who is named Foxe

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    51% of people named Foxe identified as white (not Hispanic), 45% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 51%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 45%
    • Two or more races 2.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Foxes

    4 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Hayden Foxe
      Australian association football player, born 1977
    • John Foxe
      16th-century English historian, 1516–1587
    • Cyrinda Foxe
      American actress and model (1952–2002)
    • Richard Foxe
      Bishop (1447-1528)

    Notable Foxes come mostly from the Kingdom of England (2), Australia (1) and the United States (1).

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Foxe

    Foxe has the Soundex code F200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F200.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Foxe?
    271 people in the United States had the surname Foxe in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 1,139,282 Americans. It ranked 71,886th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Foxe?
    In the 2010 Census, 51% of people named Foxe identified as white (not Hispanic), and 45% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Foxe?
    Hayden Foxe, Australian association football player, followed by John Foxe.
    Where is the surname Foxe most common?
    Wikidata records people named Foxe in the Kingdom of England, Australia and the United States.
    Is the surname Foxe getting more or less common?
    Less common. 305 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 271 in 2010, down 11%.