# Fulwood (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/fulwood/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A habitational surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 835 |
| US rank (2010) | 28,552 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 369,755 people |
| Change since 2000 | +12% (746 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From Middle English Fulewde, from Old English fūl (“dirty, foul”), definite form fūla + wudu (“wood”), 'the dirty wood'. The first element could possibly otherwise come from fugol (“bird, fowl”), thus 'wood where fowling takes place'.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Fulwood in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 38% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 57% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.2% |
| Two or more races | 2.5% |

## Similar surnames

Fullwood, Flood, Floyd, Field, Flatt, Felt, Felty, Follett, Fleet, Feld, Feldt, Fludd.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.