Meaning not yet researched.
Fox: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 129 in 2025. Its best rank was #744 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #744 in 2016; #1,411 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Fox in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,411 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #744.
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Fox: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 129 boys in 2025. Peak: #744 in 2016 · most boys in one year: 327 (2016).
In 2025, 129 US boys were named Fox, making it the 1,411th most common boys’ name of the year, down 294 places from #1,117 in 2024. That is 63 fewer than the 192 boys named Fox in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #744, reached in 2016. That year also had the most boys given the name: 327. For comparison, it was #1,035 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Fox in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1888 with 5 babies. In all, 3,988 US babies have been given the name, 2.4% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,998 babies named Fox.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,378 US boys were named Fox; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 327. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,241 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Fox ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #582 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Phox are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Phox (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Fox in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 7 | #582 | #635 |
| Oregon | 5 | #645 | #435 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #733 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #965 | #932 |
| California | 20 | #1,050 | #726 |
| Texas | 11 | #1,589 | #1,392 |
| New York | 5 | #1,848 | #1,394 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 129 | #1,411 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,045 | 192 | #1,117 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,602 | 190 | #1,114 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,647 | 221 | #1,008 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,659 | 242 | #933 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,590 | 243 | #920 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,764 | 243 | #906 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,060 | 285 | #795 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,212 | 306 | #767 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,070 | 327 | #744 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,127 | 195 | #1,035 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,540 | 164 | #1,155 |
| 2013 | — | — | 151 | #1,189 |
| 2012 | — | — | 96 | #1,621 |
| 2011 | — | — | 87 | #1,707 |
| 2010 | — | — | 90 | #1,701 |
| 2009 | — | — | 91 | #1,711 |
| 2008 | — | — | 81 | #1,815 |
| 2007 | — | — | 65 | #2,099 |
| 2006 | — | — | 41 | #2,803 |
| 2005 | — | — | 55 | #2,192 |
| 2004 | — | — | 53 | #2,198 |
| 2003 | — | — | 41 | #2,521 |
| 2002 | — | — | 28 | #3,211 |
| 2001 | — | — | 44 | #2,289 |
| 2000 | — | — | 38 | #2,494 |
| 1999 | — | — | 46 | #2,076 |
| 1998 | — | — | 42 | #2,170 |
| 1997 | — | — | 43 | #2,072 |
| 1996 | — | — | 28 | #2,699 |
| 1995 | — | — | 19 | #3,471 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #3,838 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,206 |
| 1888 | — | — | 5 | #1,087 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).