Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : Dark water
  • English : Worthy

Boy name variations

Douglas
Douglass
Doug
Dougie
Dug
Dougal
Dugald
Dougles
Dugaid
Duglass
Doogan
Doogen
Dougan
Dougen
Douggan
Douggen
Dugen
Duggan

How Popular Is The Name Dugan

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dubhagáin ‘descendant of Dubhagán’, a byname representing a double diminutive of dubh ‘black’, ‘dark’ (see Duff).
  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Ó Duibhginn (see Deegan).

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