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What does Dougal mean?
Dougal is a baby name with Anglo, Celtic, Scottish context. Parents can review its meaning, origin, numerology, sibling ideas, and similar names before adding it to a shortlist. The recorded meaning is Dark stranger; Dark-skinned stranger; Dweller by the dark.
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Douglas
Boy
Filipino
blue-black; Dark stream or dark river; Dark water In the seventeenth century, this name was as popular for girls as for boys; Dwells by the dark stream; from the dark water
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Don
Unisex
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A diminutive of Donald, meaning world mighty, or Donovan, meaning dark brown Frequently used as a name on its ownAbbreviation of any name beginning with Don- In mythology the Irish Donn was known as king of the underworld; actor Donald Sutherland; Dark...
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Unisex
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A diminutive of Donald, meaning world mighty, or Donovan, meaning dark brown Frequently used as a name on its ownAbbreviation of any name beginning with Don- In mythology the Irish Donn was known as king of the underworld; actor Donald Sutherland; Dark...
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Douglas
Boy
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blue-black; Dark stream or dark river; Dark water In the seventeenth century, this name was as popular for girls as for boys; Dwells by the dark stream; from the dark water
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