Fox

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Fox: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Fox: Recorded since 1996, it reached #418 in 2019, and it stood at #619 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
36times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#418highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2015–2023

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2015	#5730
2017	#5765
2018	#3985
2020	#5493
2021	#4634
2023	#5687

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 27 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #619 among boys in Scotland, #664 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1168 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #664 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Fox appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 888 births with the name.

Fox across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Fox's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1168 (1996)	#435 (2019)	#664 (2024)	27 of 29	888 (1996–2024)	94 (2019)
England and Wales · Girls	#5730 (2015)	#3985 (2018)	#5687 (2023)	6 of 9	21 (2015–2023)	5 (2018)

Fox by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Fox in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	39	4 of 10	10
2000s	47	8 of 10	6
2010s	480	10 of 10	48
2020sbusiest	322	5 of 10	64

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 64 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2015 and 2016, when recorded births rose by 31, from 44 to 75.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Fox appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #418 in Northern Ireland in 2019.

Fox's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#664	56	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#728	46	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#540	71	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#526	74	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#505	75	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#435	94	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3985	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#460	88	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#495	81	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#521	75	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#740	44	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#916	32	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1183	21	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1270	20	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1522	15	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2036	10	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2318	8	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1828	11	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#3385	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2418	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2470	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1949	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2501	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1383	9	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1485	8	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1174	11	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1168	11	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#418	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#631	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#619	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 27 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #418, first reached in 2019.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 94 births, registered in England and Wales in 2019.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2019, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Calla · #418, 27y
Elara · #418, 23y
Hadley · #418, 29y
Margaux · #418, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Annie-Rose · #418, 24y
Calla · #418, 27y
Hadley · #418, 29y
Isabela · #418, 28y

Fox was ranked #418 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2019. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Fox and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Fox without appearing here.

Fox moved ahead of

Graeme Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3385 and #2870 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #2318 and #4527.
Kim Compare
In 2007 they stood at #3385 and #1892 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1828 and #3687.
Espen Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3225 and #3225 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #2418 and #3849.
Brent Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2318 and #1981 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #2036 and #2941.

Moved ahead of Fox

Hunter Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2470 and #2857 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #2418 and #1135.
Cooper Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1383 and #1850 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #2501 and #1425.
Hudson Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1383 and #1850 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #2501 and #1889.
Ollie Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1174 and #2022 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #1485 and #924.

Moved the opposite way to Fox

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Fox went from #1168 to #664 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Fox went from #1168 to #664 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Fox went from #1168 to #664 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Fox went from #1168 to #664 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Fox

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Fox went from #1168 to #664 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Fox went from #1168 to #664 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Fox went from #1168 to #664 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Fox went from #1168 to #664 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #418 in Northern Ireland in 2019. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Fox

Fox at a glance

What the data shows

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Fox across 2 official records

Fox by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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