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The MCDOUGAL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,011 4625 0.003 26
United States (1880 census) 70 40160 0 1
Change since 1880 +6941 +35535 +N/A +25
Other Countries
Australia 111 13038 0.001 7
United Kingdom 345 11611 0.001 8
Top States for MCDOUGAL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 607 3896 0.003 29
California 435 6740 0.001 13
Florida 364 5772 0.002 23
Ohio 361 4099 0.003 32
North Carolina 345 3246 0.004 43
Top States for MCDOUGAL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 182 1439 0.014 143
Arkansas 306 1239 0.011 114
West Virginia 147 1830 0.008 81
Utah 167 1896 0.007 75
Alabama 291 2382 0.007 65

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of MCDOUGAL

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 MCDOUGAL 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 MCDOUGAL 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 MCDOUGAL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 113 1.61
White (Hispanic) 94 1.34
Native American/Alaskan 53 0.76
Asian/Pacific 25 0.36
White (Caucasian) 5,434 77.51
Black/African American 1,292 18.43

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

Meaning of MCDOUGAL in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of MCDOUGAL.

Similar names to MCDOUGAL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCDOUGAL.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for MCDOUGAL

The following words are slight variants of MCDOUGAL that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.