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Douglas
Pronounced /ˈdʌɡləs/
Rank in 2024
#855
Born in 2024
283
Peak year
1957 · #30
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 283 boys were named Douglas, about 1 in every 6,061.
- It peaked in 1957 with 16,731 babies, ranked #30.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 559,708 boys have been named Douglas since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Douglas per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 1.3Greatest1901–27
- 3.5Silent1928–45
- 7.0Boomers1946–64
- 4.7Gen X1965–80
- 1.8Millennials1981–96
- 0.5Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 21,175 babies, 1.27 per 1,000. Silent: 71,648 babies, 3.47 per 1,000. Boomers: 263,945 babies, 7.03 per 1,000. Gen X: 128,614 babies, 4.73 per 1,000. Millennials: 54,258 babies, 1.78 per 1,000. Gen Z: 14,433 babies, 0.46 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 4,609 babies, 0.21 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From a place name, Scottish Gaelic dubh (“black”) + glais (“stream”).
- (countable) A male given name transferred from the surname.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈdʌɡləs/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Douglas, CC BY-SA 4.0.