Ful

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Pam in GB United Kingdom, ES Spain, DK Denmark and 14 more, Palm in US United States, AU Australia, CA Canada, ปารมี in TH Thailand and ফুল in BD Bangladesh.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Ful is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name4.8K records spelled Ful4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Fül

• Spanish given name1.4K records spelled Ful6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Mexico, France, Philippines

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French

  Also written Fūl

25 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Ful is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In cdo, thin, poor, light, to slight, to cover, to collect, to diminish, a curtain, S

  as a word·Dictionary of the Foochow Dialect

• In sga, third-person singular present subjunctive prototonic of fo·loing

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Fula.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Swedish, ugly; of displeasing appearance

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In enm, very; much; to a great extent

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In tbc, betel pepper: Piper betle

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 109 years between 1899–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 222 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ful?

We estimate roughly 90 thousand people bear Ful (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Ful have the most bearers?

Ful is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled ful.

How common is Ful compared with other names?

In India, Ful is the 398th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.

Is Ful a male or female name?

Ful is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.