The surname Fulford
An English place surname, carried by 4,123 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex F416
Origin
English origin
From Old English fūl (“dirty, muddy”), in the definite form fūla + ford (“ford”).
Fulford is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 4,123 people named Fulford in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 74,884 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 4,106.
Who is named Fulford
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
82% of people named Fulford identified as white (not Hispanic), 15% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 82%
- Black (not Hispanic) 15%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
- Two or more races 1.2%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Fulford come from?
- From Old English fūl (“dirty, muddy”), in the definite form fūla + ford (“ford”).
- How common is the surname Fulford?
- 4,123 people in the United States had the surname Fulford in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 74,884 Americans. It ranked 8,029th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Fulford?
- In the 2010 Census, 82% of people named Fulford identified as white (not Hispanic), and 15% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Fulford?
- Fulford is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Fulford getting more or less common?
- More common. 4,106 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,123 in 2010, up 0.4%.