Douglas

See also: douglas

English

From a place name, Goidelic dubh (“black”) + glais (“stream”).

Douglas (countable and uncountable, plural Douglases)

A habitational surname of Scottish origin.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
A place name or the name of a geographical feature, often given after a person:
1. Douglas, the capital of the Isle of Man.
2. Douglas, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, the origin of clan Douglas and the Lords of Douglas.
3. a city in Georgia, USA, and the county seat of Coffee County.
4. a city in Wyoming, USA, and the county seat of Converse County.

c. 1597, [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fovrth; […], quarto edition, London: Printed by P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, OCLC 932916628:
: Act IV, Scene V:
The noble Scot, Lord Douglas, when he saw

The fortune of the day quite turn'd from him

The noble Percy slain, and all his men

Upon the foot of fear, fled with the rest.
1756 John Home, Douglas: A Tragedy, Prologue
Douglas, a name through all the world renown'd,

A name that rouses like the trumpet's sound!
1960 Muriel Spark, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, New Directions Publishing, 1999, page 68-69
'Just call me Dougal,' said Dougal.

'Douglas,' she said, pronouncing it 'Dooglass'.

'No, Dougal - Douglas is my surname.'

'Oh, Dougal Douglas. Dougal's the first name.'

male given name

capital of the Isle of Man

Douglas

Borrowed from English Douglas.

Douglas m

Douglas f

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