Fuchs Surname
Approximately 190,672 people bear this surname
Fuchs Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 118,345 | 1:680 | 43 |
| Austria | 22,438 | 1:380 | 13 |
| United States | 18,660 | 1:19,424 | 2,436 |
| Switzerland | 10,074 | 1:815 | 43 |
| Israel | 4,867 | 1:1,758 | 165 |
| Brazil | 3,306 | 1:64,753 | 2,415 |
| Argentina | 1,570 | 1:27,225 | 2,275 |
| Canada | 1,390 | 1:26,508 | 3,543 |
| France | 1,150 | 1:57,759 | 7,716 |
| Hungary | 1,089 | 1:9,014 | 1,057 |
| Czechia | 977 | 1:10,884 | 1,474 |
| Netherlands | 864 | 1:19,545 | 3,069 |
| South Africa | 666 | 1:81,348 | 10,035 |
| Australia | 570 | 1:47,361 | 5,928 |
| Peru | 465 | 1:68,353 | 5,118 |
| Thailand | 459 | 1:153,896 | 24,467 |
| Italy | 428 | 1:142,889 | 22,591 |
| England | 322 | 1:173,037 | 15,826 |
| Sweden | 292 | 1:33,722 | 2,746 |
| Slovakia | 238 | 1:22,422 | 3,640 |
| Spain | 230 | 1:203,270 | 13,886 |
| Luxembourg | 214 | 1:2,713 | 328 |
| Belgium | 197 | 1:58,359 | 9,452 |
| Venezuela | 138 | 1:218,870 | 5,724 |
| Morocco | 136 | 1:253,501 | 42,794 |
| Mexico | 124 | 1:1,001,018 | 13,136 |
| Croatia | 116 | 1:36,453 | 7,403 |
| Chile | 93 | 1:189,424 | 6,093 |
| Dominican Republic | 85 | 1:122,740 | 5,063 |
| Slovenia | 80 | 1:31,096 | 6,239 |
| Denmark | 75 | 1:75,263 | 7,389 |
| Uruguay | 71 | 1:48,335 | 5,418 |
| Russia | 67 | 1:2,151,090 | 130,958 |
| Estonia | 65 | 1:20,335 | 3,530 |
| Portugal | 57 | 1:182,776 | 7,697 |
| Romania | 56 | 1:358,533 | 30,627 |
| Norway | 50 | 1:102,846 | 13,903 |
| Ecuador | 43 | 1:369,903 | 9,697 |
| Singapore | 43 | 1:128,086 | 5,748 |
| Liechtenstein | 40 | 1:959 | 116 |
| New Zealand | 40 | 1:113,208 | 14,508 |
| Poland | 38 | 1:1,000,230 | 71,240 |
| Scotland | 37 | 1:144,698 | 8,671 |
| Finland | 34 | 1:161,668 | 14,556 |
| New Caledonia | 31 | 1:8,910 | 2,168 |
| Kazakhstan | 26 | 1:680,096 | 45,825 |
| French Polynesia | 25 | 1:11,232 | 2,339 |
| Wales | 25 | 1:123,781 | 9,267 |
| China | 24 | 1:56,971,732 | 3,099 |
| Uzbekistan | 22 | 1:1,405,870 | 25,726 |
| Qatar | 16 | 1:147,375 | 16,023 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 15 | 1:6,611 | 774 |
| Philippines | 15 | 1:6,749,215 | 188,373 |
| Ireland | 12 | 1:392,412 | 15,634 |
| Costa Rica | 12 | 1:398,339 | 3,755 |
| Guatemala | 10 | 1:1,608,267 | 5,853 |
| Malaysia | 9 | 1:3,277,136 | 121,952 |
| Saudi Arabia | 9 | 1:3,428,424 | 32,607 |
| Hong Kong | 8 | 1:916,935 | 4,774 |
| Japan | 8 | 1:15,980,537 | 47,042 |
| Paraguay | 8 | 1:904,593 | 9,127 |
| Greece | 7 | 1:1,582,827 | 88,377 |
| Northern Ireland | 6 | 1:307,506 | 12,899 |
| Turkey | 6 | 1:12,970,237 | 144,247 |
| Kosovo | 5 | 1:372,374 | 9,323 |
| India | 4 | 1:191,766,346 | 1,073,940 |
| Laos | 4 | 1:1,647,081 | 888 |
| Nigeria | 4 | 1:44,285,690 | 437,567 |
| Tajikistan | 4 | 1:2,096,673 | 7,416 |
| Belarus | 3 | 1:3,167,020 | 121,664 |
| Indonesia | 3 | 1:44,083,065 | 698,220 |
| Monaco | 3 | 1:12,355 | 2,088 |
| Serbia | 3 | 1:2,381,649 | 30,913 |
| United Arab Emirates | 3 | 1:3,054,091 | 90,853 |
| Albania | 2 | 1:1,457,028 | 24,967 |
| Colombia | 2 | 1:23,887,036 | 32,612 |
| Cyprus | 2 | 1:442,438 | 9,493 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| North Macedonia | 2 | 1:1,050,736 | 26,362 |
| Nicaragua | 2 | 1:3,010,545 | 7,383 |
| Pakistan | 2 | 1:89,321,942 | 157,560 |
| Tanzania | 2 | 1:26,470,806 | 111,653 |
| Zimbabwe | 2 | 1:7,719,120 | 118,432 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| Aruba | 1 | 1:103,477 | 2,586 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 1:9,649,122 | 47,873 |
| Bolivia | 1 | 1:10,616,434 | 17,077 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1 | 1:3,536,402 | 19,532 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Cambodia | 1 | 1:15,487,146 | 14,824 |
| Cuba | 1 | 1:11,522,716 | 17,380 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Fiji | 1 | 1:894,391 | 4,568 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
| Jersey | 1 | 1:99,202 | 6,620 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 1 | 1:5,972,654 | 99,197 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Moldova | 1 | 1:3,561,368 | 78,271 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
| Rwanda | 1 | 1:11,364,978 | 5,947 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| United States Virgin Islands | 1 | 1:110,375 | 6,934 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 86 | 1:283,435 | 19,633 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:3,743,216 | 32,299 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2,265 | 1:22,172 | 2,786 |
The alternate forms: Füchs (2,716) & Fűchs (1) are calculated separately.
Fuchs (120) may also be a first name.
Fuchs Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
(Ger.) Fox [O.H.Ger. vuhs]
“Fox” in German.
(German) One who lived at the sign of the fox; one with foxlike characteristics.
(from a house sign) or (from a personal characteristic) In the ghetto of Frankfurt, house No. 78 had the sign of the Fuchs (“fox), and a number of German Jews derive their name from that source. Among eastern European Jews the family name may stem from a nickname Fox attributed to red-headed people. Finally, rabbis in Poland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries wore a special garb with a fox-lined outer garment, and when names were given out this may have influenced the selection. In Poland the word for fox is lis, and the Jewish family name Liss or Lis is the result. In German the name is Fuchs, and in English the name is Fox.
User-submitted Reference
Fuchs is a German word for 'fox'. The surname first began to be used in the German state of Bavaria after the 12th century. It is associated with noble families from Tirol and Franconia, mentioned as knights in chronicles dating back to 1190.
- rominFuchs Demographics
Average Male Fuchs Height
176.62 cm
Average Female Fuchs Height
164.31 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Fuchs Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Fuchs Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Fuchs occurs most in Germany. It can occur as: Füchs or Fűchs. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Fuchs? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,949th most prevalent surname globally, borne by approximately 1 in 38,220 people. The last name is predominantly found in Europe, where 83 percent of Fuchs reside; 80 percent reside in Western Europe and 79 percent reside in Germanic Europe. Fuchs is also the 852,104th most numerous forename worldwide, borne by 120 people.
The last name is most numerous in Germany, where it is carried by 118,345 people, or 1 in 680. In Germany Fuchs is mostly found in: Bavaria, where 28 percent live, Baden-Württemberg, where 18 percent live and North Rhine-Westphalia, where 15 percent live. Aside from Germany this surname exists in 107 countries. It also occurs in Austria, where 12 percent live and The United States, where 10 percent live.
Fuchs Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Fuchs has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Fuchs surname expanded 824 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it expanded 374 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Scotland it expanded 3,700 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Fuchs Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Fuchs surname are 8.77% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 55.54% being registered with the party.
The amount Fuchs earn in different countries varies greatly. In Italy they earn 8.73% less than the national average, earning €27,407 per year; in Norway they earn 2.9% more than the national average, earning 356,123 kr per year; in Peru they earn 13.49% more than the national average, earning S/. 22,000 per year; in South Africa they earn 41.72% more than the national average, earning R 336,780 per year; in United States they earn 12.15% more than the national average, earning $48,390 USD per year and in Canada they earn 0.29% more than the national average, earning $49,826 CAD per year.
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