Last Name HULL

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Meaning Local: Of Hull, and important seaport in East Riding Yorks. Also, local. 'at the hull,' i.e. hill.
Local: From the city of 'Hull,' in Yorkshire, England, which comes from the Teutonic or Saxon 'Hulen' or 'Heulen,' to howl, from the noise the river Hull makes when it meets there with the sea. 'Hull' is an old word for a hill; 'Hull,' Welsh, a rough, uneven place. The city of Hull was anciently famous for its good government, whence arose this old saying, called the Beggars' and Vagranta' Litany: "From Hell, Hull, and Halifax, Good Lord deliver us!" From 'Hull,' because of the severe chastisement they met with there, and from 'Halifax,' for a law there instantly beheading with an engine, without any legal proceedings, those who were taken in the act of stealing cloth - either being probably more terrible than 'Hell' itself.
Origin English, Jewish, Irish, Hungarian

Rank 754 (2000 US census) 682 (1990 US census)
Count 41,656 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 87.34%, or 36382 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 8.23%, or 3428 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.45%, or 187 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.79%, or 329 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.44%, or 600 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.75%, or 729 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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