The MCDOUGALL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	6,258	5144	0.002	23
United States (1880 census)	71	39540	0	1
Change since 1880	+6187	+34396	+N/A	+22
Other Countries
Australia	3,030	515	0.019	185
United Kingdom	5,170	1218	0.011	113

Top States for MCDOUGALL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	602	4455	0.002	18
Washington	516	1283	0.009	88
Florida	499	3796	0.003	31
New York	455	3922	0.002	24
Michigan	422	2510	0.004	42
Top States for MCDOUGALL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	60	1416	0.009	93
Washington	516	1283	0.009	88
Montana	70	1521	0.008	78
Minnesota	345	1536	0.007	70
Maine	87	2323	0.007	68

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

Classification and Origin of MCDOUGALL

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 MCDOUGALL 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 MCDOUGALL 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 MCDOUGALL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	165	2.64
White (Hispanic)	159	2.54
Mixed Race	134	2.14
Native American/Alaskan	69	1.1
Asian/Pacific	38	0.61
White (Caucasian)	5,693	90.97

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

Similar names to MCDOUGALL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MCDOUGALL.

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.