The surname Fulghum
A surname, carried by 1,970 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex F425
Origin
Variant of Foulsham.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,970 people named Fulghum in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 156,724 Americans. That is up 7.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,827.
#14,995
rank among US surnames
1,970
people in 2010
0.7
per 100,000 Americans
+7.8%
change since 2000 (was #14,871)
Who is named Fulghum
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
92% of people named Fulghum identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 92%
- Black (not Hispanic) 4.4%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
- Two or more races 1.3%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Fulghum
Fulghum has the Soundex code F425, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F425.
Questions
- Where does the surname Fulghum come from?
- Variant of Foulsham.
- How common is the surname Fulghum?
- 1,970 people in the United States had the surname Fulghum in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 156,724 Americans. It ranked 14,995th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Fulghum?
- In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Fulghum identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Fulghum getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,827 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,970 in 2010, up 7.8%.