McDougall

McDougall is the 5,208th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,478 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 46,100.

By the numbers

People: 6,478
Rank: 5,208th
How common: 1 in 46,100
Per 100,000: 2.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

Scottish surname, from Scottish Gaelic Mac Dubhghaill (“son of Dubhghall”), from dubh (“black”) + Gall (“stranger”). Compare Doyle, McDowell.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname McDougall described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 85.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 4.3%
Black, not Hispanic 4.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%

Notable people called McDougall

William McDougall (1871–1938)British psychologist
John A. McDougall (1947–2024)American physician
John McDougall (1818–1866)California politician

People named McDougall with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like McDougall

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.