Last Name FOULDS

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Meaning Local: At the fold, an enclosure for sheep or cattle. Foulds takes a patronymic 's' like such other one-syllabled local last names as Holmes, Styles, or Brooks. Flouds is a Lancashire surname. Folds is a hamlet in the ancient parish of Bolton, county Lancashire. This probably is the habitat, and if so, then Folds must be looked upon as a plural form including several unclosures.
Origin English, Irish

Rank 28,298 (2000 US census) 18,708 (1990 US census)
Count 795 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 95.72%, or 761 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 1.89%, or 15 total occurrences, as black,
  • undisclosed % as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • undisclosed % as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 0.63%, or 5 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.38%, or 11 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Scottish surnames

 Scottish last names divide themselves into two classes: Highland and Lowland.
In very few instances the names were considered before the eleventh century. They became significantly better known only since the thirteen century.
Just like English and other last n...

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