Faulder
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/fɔldɚ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Faulder is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Cumb. occupational name from an -er derivative of Middle English fald(e), fold ‘livestock pen, sheepfold, farmyard’, denoting someone who lived or worked at such a place.
- USUnited States1 in 2.2M(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 12M
- THThailand≈1 in 51Mas โฟลเดอร์
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Faulder itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.2M (inferred from the name graph)
153 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled โฟล์เดอร์ in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Main GB Location (1881): Cumb. occupational name from an -er derivative of Middle English fald(e), fold ‘livestock pen, sheepfold, farmyard’, denoting someone who lived or worked at such a place. Compare Fold .
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world
(measured from records)Faulder counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 153 | 1 in 2.2M | 176 | — | 1 |
| TH Thailand | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 51M | register #1,027,138 | โฟล์เดอร์ | 12 |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
153 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Robert Faulderb. 1747GBbookbinder and bookseller; New Bond Street, London; active 1780-1811
- Thomas Jefferson Faulderb. 1871GBBritish surgeon
- Stanley Faulderb. 1937CACanadian murderer (1937-1999)
- James FaulderPeerage person ID=713309
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 176 | #107,521 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 153 | #114,424 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 143 | #113,519 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #179,819 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Faulder mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Cumb. occupational name from an -er derivative of Middle English fald(e), fold ‘livestock pen, sheepfold, farmyard’, denoting someone who lived or worked at such a place. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Faulder?
- A machine transcription gives /fɔldɚ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Faulder have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 153 people named Faulder, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Faulder most common?
- Faulder is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.2 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Faulder?
- In the United States, the national register counted 153 people named Faulder in 2010, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/faulderThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Faulder”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.