Given name & surname
Dugan
“a dark and swarthy man”
Dugan is used as a given name and a surname. One interpretation is “a dark and swarthy man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One interpretation is “a dark and swarthy man.”
How it developed
From Irish Ó Dubhagáin (“descendant of Dubhagán”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dugan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 513
- 513 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1998
- 21 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −100%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 21 in 1998. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 531 as a first name in 2020; 20,002 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Dugan’s family of names
Dugan has a related form in Doogan. Dugan has a related form in Dougan. Dugan has a related form in Douggan.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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