Meaning & Story
Fulton is an English surname meaning settlement by the foul place or muddy stream, from Old English ful meaning foul or muddy and tun meaning settlement. As a given name it has a distinguished, old-money feel.
Fulton is the name for a dog who has naturally acquired opinions about things. Distinguished without being stuffy, it has that great patrician quality of someone who knows their own mind. You can imagine a Fulton surveying the backyard with calm authority, or sitting at the head of the couch like a four-legged chairman of the board.