as a First Name
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 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 540,834
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 551,068
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Vermont
- has the most people named Douglas per capita
- 1942
- marked the height of its popularity
0.01%
99.99%
39%
55+
55+
49%
30-54
30-54
9%
13-29
13-29
3%
0-12
0-12
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