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    The surname Fulks

    A surname, carried by 3,531 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex F420

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Fulks is more common than 94.3% of them.

    Origin

    Variant of Foulks.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,531 people named Fulks in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 87,439 Americans. That is up 3.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,402.

    #9,224
    rank among US surnames
    3,531
    people in 2010
    1.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.8%
    change since 2000 (was #8,856)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #9,217Eide3,53687,315
    #9,221Kerber3,53587,340
    #9,222Lenoir3,53487,364
    #9,224Fulks3,53187,439
    #9,226Choudhury3,53087,463
    #9,227Baugher3,52987,488
    #9,232Oney3,52887,513

    Who is named Fulks

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

    78% of people named Fulks identified as white (not Hispanic), 17% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 78%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 17%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Fulkss

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Joe Fulks
      American basketball player (1921–1976)

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Fulks

    Fulks has the Soundex code F420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F420.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Fulks come from?
    Variant of Foulks.
    How common is the surname Fulks?
    3,531 people in the United States had the surname Fulks in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 87,439 Americans. It ranked 9,224th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Fulks?
    In the 2010 Census, 78% of people named Fulks identified as white (not Hispanic), and 17% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Who is the most famous person named Fulks?
    Joe Fulks, American basketball player (1921–1976).
    Where is the surname Fulks most common?
    Wikidata records people named Fulks in the United States.
    Is the surname Fulks getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,402 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,531 in 2010, up 3.8%.