The history of your name

The FOULKES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 829 27386 0 3
United States (1880 census) 293 14557 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +536 -12829 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 197 7652 0.001 12
United Kingdom 3,307 1885 0.007 72
Top States for FOULKES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 66 20653 0.000 4
California 63 29425 0.000 2
Ohio 61 17377 0.001 5
Illinois 58 18923 0.000 5
New York 54 27804 0.000 3
Top States for FOULKES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 20 6285 0.002 19
New Hampshire 13 9283 0.001 11
Maine 11 10453 0.001 9
Washington 42 13764 0.001 7
Vermont 4 16100 0.001 7

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called FOULKES live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called FOULKES represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called FOULKES in Florida than any other state, but you are more likely to find a FOULKES by picking someone at random in Rhode Island than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of FOULKES

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FOULKES surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the FOULKES surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of FOULKES in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 641 77.32
Black/African American 144 17.37
White (Hispanic) 13 1.57
Mixed Race 11 1.33
Asian/Pacific 10 1.21
Native American/Alaskan 10 1.21

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the FOULKES surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of FOULKES in historical publications

FOULKES. The personal name, Fulco or Fulke, through the Fr. Foulques.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to FOULKES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FOULKES.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for FOULKES

The following words are slight variants of FOULKES that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.