Pulliam

Pulliam is the 3,205th most common surname in the United States, shared by 10,980 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 27,200.

By the numbers

People: 10,980
Rank: 3,205th
How common: 1 in 27,200
Per 100,000: 3.7

Where the name comes from

From Anglo-Norman pulain (“foal, colt”), from Old French polain (“foal, colt”). Alternatively, it may derive from Welsh ap (“son of”) and William.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 63.6%
Black, not Hispanic 27.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Pulliam

Keshia Knight Pulliam (born 1979)American actress

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

Surnames like Pulliam

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.