Boy
Douglas
The name Douglas carries the meaning "From the dark river", with roots in Scottish. It belongs mostly to the 1950s at this point. These days, it is familiar to most people. The registry counts around 558,489 U.S. births under this name going back to 1900.
ScottishFrom the dark river
GaelicBlack water, dark stream
Births by decade
1900s
960
1910s
7,023
1920s
17,487
1930s
26,179
1940s
80,995
1950s
148,449
1960s
135,446
1970s
65,520
1980s
42,030
1990s
22,013
2000s
8,663
2010s
3,724
Peaked in the 1950s · 558,489 total U.S. births since 1900