boys:
2.7k births since 1884
#2408 (47th percentile)
overall:
2.7k births since 1884
#5149 (33rd percentile)
The name Fulton is the #5,149 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,742 recorded births since 1884. This represents the 33.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 33.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,408 (47.5% percentile) for all time with 2,742 births since 1884.
Fulton first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1884 (first recorded for boys in 1884). Birth data for Fulton is available in 127 out of the 140 years between 1884 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Fulton reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 7.8% percentile (ranked #464) with 50 births per million. The name was most common in 1887, with 91 births per million (ranked 2.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Fulton ranks #863 for boys (5.3% percentile) with 29 births per million, which is 31.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Fulton".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Fulton. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.0% confident that Fulton is pronounced as FOOL-tuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is FOHL-tuhn, at 12.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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