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The FULTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 31,513 1017 0.012 117
United States (1880 census) 9,830 614 0.02 197
Change since 1880 +21683 -403 -0.008 -80
Other Countries
Australia 1,632 998 0.01 100
United Kingdom 5,309 1176 0.012 116
Top States for FULTON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 2,276 1132 0.011 109
California 2,173 1547 0.006 64
Pennsylvania 2,104 589 0.017 171
Florida 1,948 1074 0.012 122
Ohio 1,877 684 0.017 165
Top States for FULTON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 932 470 0.033 328
South Carolina 1,221 530 0.030 304
Oklahoma 653 717 0.019 189
Montana 161 630 0.018 178
Pennsylvania 2,104 589 0.017 171

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

Classification and Origin of FULTON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FULTON 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 FULTON 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 FULTON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 488 1.55
Mixed Race 447 1.42
Native American/Alaskan 299 0.95
Asian/Pacific 145 0.46
White (Caucasian) 23,339 74.06
Black/African American 6,794 21.56

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

Meaning of FULTON in historical publications

FULTON. An extinct border village In CO. Roxburgh.

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 FULTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FULTON.

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 FULTON

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