How common is the surname Fullerton?

8,517 people in the United States had the surname Fullerton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 36,251 Americans. It ranked 4,162nd of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Fullerton?

C. Gordon Fullerton, American astronaut and test pilot (1936–2013), followed by Fiona Fullerton.

Where is the surname Fullerton most common?

Wikidata records people named Fullerton in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.

Is the surname Fullerton getting more or less common?

More common. 8,359 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,517 in 2010, up 1.9%.

The surname Fullerton

An English place surname, carried by 8,517 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex F463

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Fullerton is more common than 97.4% of them.

Origin

English origin

From Old English fuglere (“fowler, birdcatcher”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Fullerton 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 8,517 people named Fullerton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 36,251 Americans. That is up 1.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,359.

#4,162

rank among US surnames

8,517

people in 2010

2.9

per 100,000 Americans

+1.9%

change since 2000 (was #3,912)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,157	Mosier	8,522	36,229
#4,159	Petrie	8,520	36,238
#4,160	Elliot	8,518	36,246
#4,162	Fullerton	8,517	36,251
#4,163	Sharkey	8,514	36,263

Who is named Fullerton

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

89% of people named Fullerton identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 89%
Black (not Hispanic) 6.0%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 1.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Fullertons

4 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

C. Gordon Fullerton
American astronaut and test pilot (1936–2013)
Fiona Fullerton
British actress and singer, born 1956
Mary Eliza Fullerton
Australian author, feminist, 1868–1946
Melanie Fullerton
American actress, born 1962

Notable Fullertons come mostly from the United States (2), the United Kingdom (1) and Australia (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Fullerton

Fullard

Fullerton has the Soundex code F463, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F463.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Fullerton come from?: From Old English fuglere (“fowler, birdcatcher”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
How common is the surname Fullerton?: 8,517 people in the United States had the surname Fullerton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 36,251 Americans. It ranked 4,162nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Fullerton?: In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Fullerton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Fullerton?: C. Gordon Fullerton, American astronaut and test pilot (1936–2013), followed by Fiona Fullerton.
Where is the surname Fullerton most common?: Wikidata records people named Fullerton in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.
What type of surname is Fullerton?: Fullerton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Fullerton getting more or less common?: More common. 8,359 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,517 in 2010, up 1.9%.