Douglas

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Primarily a boy's name · 100% boys

Origin: English

Meaning

Douglas is a masculine given name which originated from the surname Douglas. Although today the name is almost exclusively given to boys, it was used as a girl's name in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the north of England.

From Wikipedia

Douglas first appears in the data in 1952 and has been recorded in 36 different years as a boy's name. Its single biggest year was 1960 with 235 babies (rank #60 that year). It was not in the 2025 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Douglas

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Douglas yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

4,197
Total babies (all years)
36
Years in the data
235
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Boys

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
1952198#47
1953185#47
1954162#48
1955176#47
1956177#48
1957158#55
1958150#60
1959130#66
1960235#60
1961188#67
1962198#65
1963186#66
1964187#67
1965154#71
1966157#73
1967128#78
1968148#76
1969129#85
1970147#80
1971137#87
1972117#90
197351#106
197449#105
1975115#92
197645#107
197745#103
197836#108
197954#103
1980110#91
1981130#90
198248#106
198348#109
20141#1,201
20157#210
20165#296
20176#253