Last Name FULWOOD

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Meaning Local: Of Fulwood, a township in the parish of Lancaster, county Lancaster; 'of Fulwood,' an ecclesiastical district in the parish of Sheffield, West Riding Yorks. This seems to have been the habitat of the family.
Origin English, Irish

Rank 29,758 (2000 US census) 40,711 (1990 US census)
Count 746 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 40.88%, or 305 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 56.7%, or 423 total occurrences, as black,
  • undisclosed % as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • undisclosed % as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.34%, or 10 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 0.8%, or 6 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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