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Dugald

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Dugald has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 1919. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1919, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Dugald, 1948

1 in 690,000

Dugald over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dugald: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dugald means

Dugald is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Dugald is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 16 boys were recorded with the name Dugald between 1919 and 1948. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1919; its best national rank was #3,816 in 1948.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Dugald?

Dugald had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1948, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1948
1 in 690,000
5 of 3,452,053 births
Among boys only
1 in 351,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1948
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
478,557 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dugald sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1948 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 478,557 children born in 1948 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dugald. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dugalds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dugald was born before 1931 — so the typical Dugald is around 94 today.

Median birth year
1931
About 94 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
37.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
62.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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Choose a decade

1910s — 37.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Dugald rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1919 (6)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#3,816
1948

Spellings of Dugald

Dugald is not the most common spelling — Donald is, with 99.7% against Dugald's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Dugald around the world

Where Dugald ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Scotland
    1975–2008
    #535
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1946–2003
    #588
    in 2003

Popularity data from National Records of Scotland and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Dugald by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,816
1948
Peak year
1919
6 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
1948
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dugald

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Dugald

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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