Fulton

At the 2020 census, 30,773 Americans bore the surname Fulton — 1,118th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 9,713.

By the numbers

People: 30,773
Rank: 1,118th
How common: 1 in 9,713
Per 100,000: 10.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Foulden, a village in Norfolk, from Old English fuġol (“bird”) + tūn (“dwelling”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Fulton described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 68.6%
Black, not Hispanic 21.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Fulton

Robert Fulton (1765–1815)American engineer and inventor
Grace Fulton (born 1996)American actress
Jay Fulton (born 1994)association football player
Margaret Fulton (1924–2019)Australian food writer
Travis Fulton (1977–2021)American mixed martial artist
William Fulton (born 1939)American mathematician
John Farquhar Fulton (1899–1960)American neurophysiologist and historian of science
Shaane Fulton (born 2000)New Zealand cyclist

People named Fulton with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Fulton

Also a first name

Fulton has been given to 2,882 American babies as a first name since 1884, peaking in 2024. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.