Skip to content
Name Lineage

    The surname Fulkerson

    A surname, carried by 6,391 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex F426

    Fulkerson: #5,444 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Fulkerson #5,444, 6,391 people Fulkerson: #5,444 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Fulkerson #5,444, 6,391 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Fulkerson is more common than 96.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 6,391 people named Fulkerson in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 48,309 Americans. That is up 4.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,121.

    #5,444
    rank among US surnames
    6,391
    people in 2010
    2.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.4%
    change since 2000 (was #5,238)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,435Albanese6,40748,189
    #5,436Delapaz6,40448,211
    #5,437Aguero6,40248,226
    #5,438Haynie6,40048,241
    #5,441Fairley6,39848,257
    #5,442Rawson6,39548,279
    #5,443Quirk6,39248,302

    Who is named Fulkerson

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    95% of people named Fulkerson identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Fulkersons

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • D. R. Fulkerson
      American mathematician (1924–1976)

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Fulkerson

    Fulkerson has the Soundex code F426, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F426.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Fulkerson?
    6,391 people in the United States had the surname Fulkerson in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 48,309 Americans. It ranked 5,444th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Fulkerson?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Fulkerson identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Who is the most famous person named Fulkerson?
    D. R. Fulkerson, American mathematician (1924–1976).
    Where is the surname Fulkerson most common?
    Wikidata records people named Fulkerson in the United States.
    Is the surname Fulkerson getting more or less common?
    More common. 6,121 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,391 in 2010, up 4.4%.