Fóx
surname · Latin script
Fóx is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 152,334 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. In Ireland it is the 81st most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Middle English fox, from Old English fox (“fox”), from Proto-West Germanic *fuhs, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz (“fox”), from Proto-Indo-European *púḱsos (“the tailed one”), possibly from *puḱ- (“t. Fóx is also written 폭스 in Korean (Hangul).
- IEIreland≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.4K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #553 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 564 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
152,334 people, 2010
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Fóx in other scripts: Korean (Hangul)
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Fox in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Middle Englishfox(measured from records)
- Old Englishfox“fox”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*fuhs(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*fuhsaz“fox”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*púḱsos“the tailed one”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European root*puḱ-“tail”(measured from records)
From Middle English fox, from Old English fox (“fox”), from Proto-West Germanic *fuhs, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz (“fox”), from Proto-Indo-European *púḱsos (“the tailed one”), possibly from *puḱ- (“tail”). Cognate with Scots fox (“fox”), West Frisian foks (“fox”), Fering-Öömrang North Frisian foos and Sölring and Heligoland fos, Dutch vos (“fox”), Low German vos (“fox”), German Fuchs (“fox”), Icelandic fóa (“fox”), Tocharian B päkā (“tail, chowrie”), Russian пух (pux, “down, fluff”), Sanskrit पुच्छ (púccha) (whence Torwali پوش (pūš, “fox”), Hindi पूंछ (pūñch, “tail”)).
Cited for this meaning 5
- A concise dictionary of first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- Nordic Names
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Fóx is found
(measured from records)Fóx counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #151 | 152,334 | 1 in 2.2K | 152K | Fox | 564 |
| GB United Kingdom | #105 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 4 | Fox | 323 |
| CA Canada | #144 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 1 | Fox | 254 |
| AU Australia | #146 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 3 | Fox | 224 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 9K | — | Fox | 79 |
| IE Ireland | #81 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Fox | 142 |
| NZ New Zealand | #152 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 12 | Fox | 121 |
152,334 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fóx mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English fox, from Old English fox (“fox”), from Proto-West Germanic *fuhs, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz (“fox”), from Proto-Indo-European *púḱsos (“the tailed one”), possibly from *puḱ- (“t… Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 3 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Fóx?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 152 thousand people named Fóx, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fox. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Fóx?
- In the United States, the national register counted 152,334 people named Fóx in 2010, about 1 in 2.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Fóx compared with other names?
- In the United States, Fóx is the 151st most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/f%C3%B3xThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Fóx” — ranked 167th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.