Douglas

Where Douglas comes from

From a place name, Scottish Gaelic dubh (“black”) + glais (“stream”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Douglas
  • 2 syllables
Douglas through the years
  1. 1880
    Douglas MacArthur born
    United States Army general in WWI, WWII and Korea
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #314 among boys, with 29 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1942
    Peak, #23
    11,233 babies named Douglas, its best rank.
  4. 1952
    Douglas Adams born
    British science fiction writer and humorist
  5. 1975
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #55.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Douglas Adams · British science fiction writer and humorist, 1952–2001
  • Douglas MacArthur · United States Army general in WWI, WWII and Korea, 1880–1964
  • Douglas Engelbart · American engineer and inventor, 1925–2013
  • Douglas Osheroff · American physicist, born 1945
  • Douglas Fairbanks · American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer, 1883–1939

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.