Cox

Cox is the 82nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 249,872 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 1,196.

By the numbers

People: 249,872
Rank: 82nd
How common: 1 in 1,196
Per 100,000: 83.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

The surname has converged from several different origins; see Cox.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Cox described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 79.5%
Black, not Hispanic 11.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Cox

Courteney Cox (born 1964)American actress and producer
Laverne Cox (born 1972)American actress and LGBT advocate
Brian Cox (born 1946)Scottish actor
Charlie Cox (born 1982)British actor
Jo Cox (1974–2016)British politician
Brian Cox (born 1968)English physicist and musician
Pat Cox (born 1952)Irish politician
Ronny Cox (born 1938)American actor and musician

People named Cox with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.