Douglas

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Male Male Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

English form of Dùbhghlas [1]

Related Names

See Dùbhghlas

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Douglas
Genitive: Douglas'
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Douglas
Genitive: Douglaksen
Partitive: Douglasta
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Douglas
Genitive: Douglas'
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Douglas
Genitive: Douglas' / Douglas

Name Day

Sweden Sweden

13 April

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

  • Sweden: 1850 (Göteborg, Västergötland) [2]

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 1847 people were named Douglas (percentage of first or only given name: 15 %) [3]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[4]
2837 5047 0 5 2837 5042
Finland Finland[5]
n.a.
390 0 0
n.a.
390
Denmark Denmark[6]
100
n.a.
0
n.a.
100
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[7]
3 11
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[8]
88
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
88
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[9]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Douglas (m) Sources: [4][6][8][5]


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  2. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  5. 5.0 5.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  6. 6.0 6.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  8. 8.0 8.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/