Fulea

Fulea is a surname of Romanian origin. It is most commonly found in Romania and Moldova as well as among Romanian-speaking communities abroad. The exact etymology of Fulea is not definitively established; proposed sources include derivation from a nickname or from a regional toponym, but there is no widely agreed explanation. As a family name, Fulea appears across a range of professions and appears in historical records dating to the 19th and 20th centuries, reflecting typical patterns of name transmission in Romanian-speaking areas. In contemporary contexts, bearers of the surname can be found in fields such as sports, academia, and the arts. Like many Romanian surnames, Fulea can show regional variation in spelling in older records due to changes in transcription and orthography, though the standard form Fulea is common in current use.