Surname statistics for Fulton

There are approximately 7,497 people named Fulton in the UK. That makes it the 1,446th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 119 are named Fulton.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)74971446N/A119
United Kingdom (1881 census)377912120.013126
Change since 1881+3718-234-0.001-7
Other Countries
United States315131017N/A117
Australia1632998N/A100

Top male forenames

John Fulton
Robert Fulton
James Fulton
William Fulton
David Fulton
Mark Fulton
Andrew Fulton
Ian Fulton
Scott Fulton
Brian Fulton
Paul Fulton
Derek Fulton
Thomas Fulton
Charles Fulton
Michael Fulton
Douglas Fulton
Iain Fulton
Christopher Fulton
Nicholas Fulton
Hugh Fulton

Top female forenames

Elizabeth Fulton
Jennifer Fulton
Mary Fulton
Ann Fulton
Deborah Fulton
Margaret Fulton
Anne Fulton
Carol Fulton
Sharon Fulton
Eileen Fulton
Jacqueline Fulton
Alison Fulton
Emma Fulton
Sheila Fulton
Pamela Fulton
Elaine Fulton
Andrea Fulton
Christine Fulton
Rosemary Fulton
Joanna Fulton

Notes

  • Total is the total number of people with that surname.
  • Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
  • Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
  • Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.