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    The surname Fulwood

    An English place surname, carried by 835 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex F430

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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). Fulwood is more common than 82.4% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    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'.

    Fulwood 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 835 people named Fulwood in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 369,755 Americans. That is up 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 746.

    #28,552
    rank among US surnames
    835
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +11.9%
    change since 2000 (was #29,758)

    Who is named Fulwood

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

    57% of people named Fulwood identified as Black (not Hispanic), 38% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 57%
    • White (not Hispanic) 38%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Fulwood

    Fulwood has the Soundex code F430, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code F430.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Fulwood come from?
    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'.
    How common is the surname Fulwood?
    835 people in the United States had the surname Fulwood in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 369,755 Americans. It ranked 28,552nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Fulwood?
    In the 2010 Census, 57% of people named Fulwood identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 38% as white (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Fulwood?
    Fulwood is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Fulwood getting more or less common?
    More common. 746 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 835 in 2010, up 12%.