Boy
Doug
Rooted in Scottish Gaelic, Doug is a boy's name that means "Scottish Gaelic dubh glais, black/dark stream". It belongs mostly to the 1960s at this point. These days, it is a name that stands out a little. Few names stick around this long: it shows up across almost the entire twelve-decade span this registry covers.
EtymologyShort for Douglas
Scottish GaelicScottish Gaelic "dubh glais" – "black/dark stream"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
11
1920s
39
1930s
340
1940s
2,326
1950s
5,358
1960s
11,900
1970s
1,917
1980s
386
1990s
111
2000s
55
2010s
28
Peaked in the 1960s · 22,471 total U.S. births since 1900