Fun Facts About the Name Fuller
- 475 babies named Fuller: U.S. records list 475 babies given the name Fuller from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Fuller Mean?
Fuller is an English occupational name meaning "one who fulls cloth." A fuller was a textile worker who cleaned and thickened woven wool by treading it in water, often with a cleansing clay now known as fuller's earth. The word comes from Middle English fullere, which was borrowed from Latin fullo, "a fuller." The same Latin root lies behind the trade term fulling. The meaning is literal and occupational; it describes the job, not a personal quality.
Fuller Name History & Origins
Fuller began as a byname for men who worked at fulling, a standard step in medieval woolen cloth production. Because fulling was done in hundreds of English towns and villages, especially in the cloth-making regions, the name is likely to have arisen independently in many places rather than descending from one family. English occupational bynames of this kind gradually became hereditary surnames between roughly the twelfth and fourteenth centuries.
The term itself is older than the surname: Old English had fullere for the worker, borrowed from Latin fullo. Related forms of the same trade word appear in other European languages, and some English bearers may descend from the Anglo-Norman French word for the occupation rather than from the Old English form, which makes a single line of descent for all families impossible to trace.
The surname was carried to North America with English emigration in the seventeenth century and later. It has remained chiefly a family name; its occasional use as a given name is modern and generally taken from the surname. The common noun fuller has largely faded from everyday speech, surviving in the surname and in the term fuller's earth.
How Popular is the Name Fuller?
Fuller recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2025. Its best rank was #889 in 1886.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #5,947 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2024 | #8,516 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2023 | #8,463 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2022 | #9,260 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2021 | #8,383 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2020 | #12,677 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2019 | #12,774 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2018 | #11,222 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2017 | #6,431 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2016 | #9,997 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2015 | #9,012 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2014 | #7,205 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2013 | #8,331 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2012 | #7,207 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2011 | #9,977 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2010 | #11,197 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2009 | #9,261 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2008 | #11,525 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2006 | #11,090 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2005 | #10,531 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2003 | #9,995 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1999 | #6,704 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1997 | #7,552 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1985 | #6,897 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1963 | #3,772 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1957 | #3,707 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1952 | #3,498 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1950 | #3,139 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1949 | #3,462 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1948 | #2,866 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1941 | #2,124 | 12 | 0.0010% |
| 1939 | #2,943 | 7 | 0.0006% |
| 1937 | #3,288 | 6 | 0.0006% |
| 1935 | #3,396 | 6 | 0.0006% |
| 1934 | #3,424 | 6 | 0.0006% |
| 1933 | #2,273 | 11 | 0.0011% |
| 1932 | #3,964 | 5 | 0.0005% |
| 1931 | #3,210 | 7 | 0.0007% |
| 1930 | #3,738 | 6 | 0.0005% |
| 1928 | #2,313 | 13 | 0.0012% |
| 1927 | #2,782 | 10 | 0.0009% |
| 1926 | #2,238 | 14 | 0.0013% |
| 1925 | #2,487 | 12 | 0.0011% |
| 1924 | #2,278 | 14 | 0.0012% |
| 1923 | #3,268 | 8 | 0.0007% |
| 1922 | #3,108 | 9 | 0.0008% |
| 1921 | #3,313 | 8 | 0.0007% |
| 1920 | #2,655 | 11 | 0.0010% |
| 1919 | #2,751 | 10 | 0.0010% |
| 1918 | #2,962 | 9 | 0.0009% |
| 1917 | #2,818 | 9 | 0.0010% |
| 1916 | #2,795 | 9 | 0.0010% |
| 1915 | #2,101 | 13 | 0.0015% |
| 1914 | #2,751 | 7 | 0.0011% |
| 1913 | #1,722 | 11 | 0.0021% |
| 1911 | #1,608 | 6 | 0.0027% |
| 1886 | #889 | 6 | 0.0054% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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