as a Last Name
- 106,834
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Douglas
Meaning & Origins
Scottish: habitational name from any of the various places called Douglas from their situation on a river named with Gaelic dubh ‘dark’, ‘black’ + glas ‘stream’ (a derivative of glas ‘blue’). There are several localities in Scotland and Ireland so named, but the one from which the surname is derived in most if not all cases is 20 miles south of Glasgow, the original stronghold of the influential Douglas family and their retainers.
| 285th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 106,834
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- District of Columbia
- has the most people named Douglas per capita
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