Given name
Dùghall
“black, dark”·“stranger, foreigner”
Dùghall is a masculine given name from Old Irish. It is used in Scottish Gaelic.
Original IrishDubhghall
Meaning & origin
What it means
Dùghall is built from elements meaning “black, dark” and “stranger, foreigner”.
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How it developed
Built from Scottish Gaelic dubh (“black, dark”) + gall (“stranger, foreigner”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Dùghall’s family of names
In Scottish Gaelic usage, Dùghall shares a linguistic root with the Irish form Dubhghall. Dùghall has an English adaptation in Dougal. In Scottish Gaelic usage, Dùghall has a later derivative in Dougal.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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