Given name & surname
Voss
“fox”
Voss is a surname, probably from Low German. It is used in English and Danish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Voss probably goes back to Low German Voss,Voß, meaning “fox.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2014. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Voss through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 42
- 42 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2014
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 2014. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 20,531 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Voss’s family of names
In English usage, Voss as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with FUCHS. In German usage, Voss as a surname has a related form in Füchsle. In German usage, Voss as a surname has a related form in FUCHS.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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