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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: occupational name for a stonemason, Middle English, Old French mas(s)on. Compare Machen. Stonemasonry was a hugely important craft in the Middle Ages.
| 146th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Douglass, Dougals, Dougald, Dougles, Doughlas, Dougls, Douglad, Dougless, Dougalas, Douglaus
Maxon, Masood, Magoon, Mazon, Madonna, Masone, Masoner, Masoud, Madonia, Meson
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