Fulton
Fulton is a boy's name that peaked in 2024, when it was the 2,057th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 2,145th. About 1,600 Fultons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Fulton
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,882
- Estimated living today
- 1,600
- Median age today
- 19
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 2,057th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,145th
- First recorded
- 1884
How old the living Fultons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,882 babies given the name since 1884, about 1,600 are alive — 56 in every hundred. Roughly 790 of them are children and 370 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
From Foulden, a village in Norfolk, from Old English fuġol (“bird”) + tūn (“dwelling”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Fultons
- Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979)American catholic bishop and television presenter
People named Fulton with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Fulton is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Fulton is most concentrated in South Carolina (6.8×), Mississippi (6.2×), North Carolina (6.0×), Minnesota (5.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular boys’ names the year Fulton peaked:
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.