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Meaning & Origins
Transferred use of the surname borne by one of the most powerful families in Scotland, the earls of Douglas and of Angus, also notorious in earlier times as Border reivers. In the 17th and 18th centuries it was used as a girl's name in northern England. It is now exclusively a boys' name, used throughout the Englishâspeaking world.
| 96th in the U.S. for 2011 |
English and Scottish: extremely common and widely distributed topographic name for someone who lived on or by a hill, Middle English hill (Old English hyll).
| 36th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Douglass, Dougals, Dougald, Dougles, Doughlas, Dougls, Douglad, Dougless, Dougalas, Douglaus
Holloway, Hilliard, Hull, Hillman, Holley, Hills, Hiller, Hillard, Hillis, Holly
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