as a Last Name
- 170,385
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Fox
Meaning & Origins
English: nickname from the animal, Middle English, Old English fox. It may have denoted a cunning individual or been given to someone with red hair or for some other anecdotal reason. This relatively common and readily understood surname seems to have absorbed some early examples of less transparent surnames derived from the Germanic personal names mentioned at Faulks and Foulks.
| 152nd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 170,385
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Fox per capita
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