Fullerton

From Old English fuglere (“fowler, birdcatcher”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Fullerton (countable and uncountable, plural Fullertons)

1. A small village in Wherwell parish, Test Valley district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU3739).
2. A place in the United States:
   1. A city in Orange County, California.
      • 2021 January, Kim McLane Wardlaw writing for the Ninth Circuit, Villanueva v. Cleveland‎^[1], archived from the original on 21 June 2025, page 5:

        On July 3, 2016, at 10:35pm, Sergeant Cleveland and Officer Henderson (“the Officers”) were on patrol near Fullerton, California looking for illegal street racing and “sideshows,” events where streets are blocked off for drivers to perform unlawful maneuvers like burnouts and donuts.

   2. An unincorporated community in Vernon Parish, Louisiana.
   3. An unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland.
   4. A city, the county seat of Nance County, Nebraska.
   5. A township in Nance County, Nebraska.
   6. A minor city in Dickey County, North Dakota.
   7. A census-designated place in Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.
3. A locality in Upper Lachlan Shire, New South Wales, Australia.
4. A habitational surname from Old English.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Fullerton is the 4,162^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 8,517 individuals. Fullerton is most common among White (88.73%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Fullerton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 612.

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