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The mcdougall Surname

mcdougall Name Meaning and History

Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Dubhghaill, ‘son of Dubhghall’, a personal name composed of the elements dubh ‘black’ + gall ‘stranger’. This was originally a byname used to distinguish the darker-haired Danes from the fair-haired Norwegians. Compare Doyle.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of mcdougall Families in the US in 1920
Number of mcdougall families
 78-153
 27-77		 1-26
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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