Fuchs

At the 2020 census, 12,482 Americans bore the surname Fuchs — 2,807th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 23,900.

By the numbers

People: 12,482
Rank: 2,807th
How common: 1 in 23,900
Per 100,000: 4.2

Where the name comes from

Origin German

From German Fuchs.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Fuchs

Argel Fuchs (born 1974)Brazilian association football player
Klaus Fuchs (1911–1988)German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy
Christian Fuchs (born 1986)Austrian association football player and manager
Ruth Fuchs (1946–2023)German politician and athlete, Olympic champion
Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566)German physician and botanist
Jenő Fuchs (1882–1955)Hungarian fencer
Lazarus Fuchs (1833–1902)German mathematician
Vivian Fuchs (1908–1999)British explorer

People named Fuchs 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.