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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 English‐speaking world.
| 96th in the U.S. for 2011 |
English and French: nickname for a tall person, from Old English lang, long, Old French long ‘long’, ‘tall’ (equivalent to Latin longus).
| 82nd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Douglass, Dougals, Dougald, Dougles, Doughlas, Dougls, Douglad, Dougless, Dougalas, Douglaus
Lindsey, Lang, Lindsay, Lange, Lund, Land, Lind, Longo, Longoria, Lundy
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