The MACDOUGALL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,143	7417	0.002	15
United States (1880 census)	21	71815	0	0
Change since 1880	+4122	+64398	+N/A	+N/A
Other Countries
Australia	432	3667	0.003	26
United Kingdom	2,272	2652	0.005	49

Top States for MACDOUGALL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	624	1326	0.010	98
New York	422	4211	0.002	22
California	411	6245	0.001	12
Florida	300	6040	0.002	19
Michigan	190	5895	0.002	19
Top States for MACDOUGALL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	149	1501	0.012	117
New Hampshire	130	1402	0.011	105
Massachusetts	624	1326	0.010	98
Vermont	42	2305	0.007	69
Rhode Island	64	2363	0.006	61

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

Classification and Origin of MACDOUGALL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MACDOUGALL 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 MACDOUGALL 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 MACDOUGALL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	48	1.16
Mixed Race	38	0.92
Asian/Pacific	24	0.58
Black/African American	12	0.29
Native American/Alaskan	9	0.22
White (Caucasian)	4,012	96.84

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

Similar names to MACDOUGALL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MACDOUGALL.

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.