Fox

149,757 people in the United States were counted with the surname Fox in the 2020 census, making it the 180th most common in the country. That is about one person in 1,996.

By the numbers

People: 149,757
Rank: 180th
How common: 1 in 1,996
Per 100,000: 50.1

Where the name comes from

Origin a common noun

From fox (“a vulpine animal”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.0%
Black, not Hispanic 5.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Fox

Megan Fox (born 1986)American actress and model
Michael J. Fox (born 1961)Canadian-American actor, comedian, author, film producer, and activist
Vicente Fox (born 1942)62th President of Mexico
Matthew Fox (born 1966)American actor
Samantha Fox (born 1966)British singer
Terry Fox (1958–1981)Canadian athlete, humanitarian, and cancer research activist
George Fox (1624–1691)English founder of Quakers
Emilia Fox (born 1974)British actress and presenter

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

Surnames like Fox

Also a first name

Fox has been given to 3,988 American babies as a first name since 1888, peaking in 2016. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.