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

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'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.

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.