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Fulton

#2,153 in 2025Boys' name

Bird + dwelling

Fulton has been given to 2,882 babies in the U.S. since 1884. In 2025 it ranked #2,153 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 73 recorded.

Babies named Fulton, 2025

1 in 49,500

Fulton over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fulton: meaning, origin, and history

Bird + dwelling

surname transfer

What Fulton means

Fulton means “bird + dwelling”, associated with fuġol and tūn.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Foulden, a village in Norfolk, from Old English fuġol (“bird”) + tūn (“dwelling”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Fulton (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Fulton is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Fulton comes through Old English fuġol.

Fulton is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Fulton is pronounced /ˈfʊltən/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,882 boys were recorded with the name Fulton between 1884 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 73 in 2024; its best national rank was #607 in 1887.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,054 in 2020 to #2,153 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,259 in 2015 to #2,153 in 2025.

How common is Fulton?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 49,500
67 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 25,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,153
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
34,298 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fulton sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 34,298 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fulton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fultons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fulton was born before 1954 — so the typical Fulton is around 71 today.

Median birth year
1954
About 71 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
13.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,593
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 13.6% of all recorded uses (392).

Is Fulton rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−89
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−99
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,106
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.91×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
91.8%
Peak was 2024 (73)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#607
1887

Spellings of Fulton

Fulton is not the most common spelling — Colton is, with 27.8% against Fulton's 0.53%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Fulton is used

Across 2016–2025, Fulton was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 7,692 boys, against 1 in 46,913 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 100,000).

113 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 7,692
  2. 2Kansas1 in 10,000
  3. 3Michigan1 in 33,333
  4. 4Illinois1 in 50,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 50,000
  6. 6California1 in 100,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 100,000
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Fulton around the world

Where Fulton ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Canada
    2019–2019
    #2,943
    in 2019

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Fulton

People whose public names include Fulton, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Fulton by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,153
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 99
Best rank ever
#607
1887
Peak year
2024
73 that year
First recorded
1884
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,882
Count in 2025
67

Names similar to Fulton

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Fulton

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Fulton, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Fulton

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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