The DOUGALL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	555	37688	0	2
United States (1880 census)	205	18932	0	4
Change since 1880	+350	-18756	+N/A	-2
Other Countries
Australia	265	5824	0.002	16
United Kingdom	1,058	5023	0.002	23

Top States for DOUGALL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	76	28650	0.000	2
New York	67	26484	0.000	4
Arizona	49	10919	0.001	10
Florida	44	33657	0.000	3
Oregon	33	12394	0.001	10
Top States for DOUGALL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	9	8672	0.001	15
Idaho	19	8860	0.001	15
Oregon	33	12394	0.001	10
Arizona	49	10919	0.001	10
Iowa	17	22064	0.001	6

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called DOUGALL live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called DOUGALL represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called DOUGALL in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a DOUGALL by picking someone at random in Vermont than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of DOUGALL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the DOUGALL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the DOUGALL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of DOUGALL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	468	84.32
Black/African American	50	9.01
White (Hispanic)	12	2.16
Mixed Race	11	1.98
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the DOUGALL surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of DOUGALL in historical publications

(origin: Gaelic and Celtic.) The black stranger, from Dhu, black, and gall, a stranger, a term used by the Celts to denote a Lowlander, a foreigner, not one of them. The Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians were called by the Irish Fionne Gael, or fair-haired, and the Germans "Dubh Gail," or the black strangers.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

DOUGALL. (Generally Mac-Dougall). Gael, dint, black, and (all, a stranger — an expression used by the Celtic inhabitants of Scotland to denote a Lowlander, or any one not of their own race. It is still in use as a baptismal name.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

Similar names to DOUGALL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DOUGALL.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.