Fulton

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Fulton, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Adler
• Alden
• Calloway
• Hamilton
• Dalton

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Fulton is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Bangla name4 spellings in the group

  Also written ফুলটন

55 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Fulton is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• Transferred use of the Scottish surname, which seems to have been originally a local name from a lost place in Ayrshire. Robert Fulton (1765-1815) was the American engineer who designed the first commercially successful steamboat.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In English, An English habitational surname from Old English.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Irish, A Scottish toponymic numerous in Ulster since the seventeenth century. Bibl

  as a name·The Surnames of Ireland

• Scottish: transferred use of the surname, which seems to have been originally a local name from a lost place in Ayrshire. Robert Fulton (1765–1815) was the American engineer who designed the first commercially successful steamboat.

  as a word

• In Croatian, američki inženjer, slikar i izumitelj; izradio prvi komercijalno upotrebljiv parobrod ( Clermont ,1808), prvi ratni brod na parni pogon i prvu pokusnu podmornicu

  as a word·Hrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Robert Fultonb. 1765USAmerican engineer and inventor (1765–1815)
• Ruth Benedictb. 1887USnot in their usual nameAmerican anthropologist and folklorologist (1887-1948)
• Jerry Cantrellb. 1966USnot in their usual nameAmerican guitarist and singer

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

38 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 23 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Fulton mean, and where does it come from?

(i) person from Fulton, Borders, from a place-name meaning ‘farmstead frequented by birds’; (ii) a different form of Fullerton. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].

How do you pronounce Fulton?

In English /fʊltən/ (Wiktionary).

Which countries have the most people with the surname Fulton?

In the United States, the national register counted about 32 thousand people named Fulton, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fulton. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Colombia; the country table on this page ranks them.

How common is the name Fulton?

In the United States, the national register counted 32,258 people named Fulton in 2010, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.