Douglass
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Person from Douglas’, a Scottish locality and clan home; literally ‘dark stream’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈdəɡɫəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Douglass is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 19K
- CACanada≈1 in 26K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Douglass itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 433 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
101,458 named Douglas, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘Person from Douglas’, a Scottish locality and clan home; literally ‘dark stream’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Douglass counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 101,458as Douglas | 1 in 3.3K | 383K | Douglass | 433 |
| CN China | ≈60,000 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Douglass | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 13 | Douglass | 159 |
| AU Australia | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 80 | Douglass | 127 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 2 | Douglass | 96 |
| GY Guyana | 1,186as Douglas | 1 in 633 | 1.2K | — | 2 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 370as Douglas | 1 in 274 | 370 | — | — |
| GD Grenada | 302as Douglas | 1 in 374 | 302 | — | 1 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 254as Douglas | 1 in 212 | 254 | — | — |
101,458 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling douglas. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Douglass is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A surname from Scottish Gaelic, a less common spelling of Douglas.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Anna Murray-Douglassb. 1813USAmerican abolitionist
- Frederick Douglassb. 1817USAfrican-American social reformer, writer, and abolitionist (c. 1818–1895)
- Helen Pitts Douglassb. 1838USAmerican suffragist (1838–1903)
- Andrew Ellicott Douglassb. 1867USAmerican astronomer and dendrochronologist (1867 - 1962)
- Dorothea Douglassb. 1878GBEnglish tennis and badminton player (1878–1960)
- Adele Astaireb. 1896USnot in their usual nameAmerican dancer and entertainer (1896-1981)
- Amy Douglassb. 1902USAmerican actress (1902-1980)
- Donald Douglasb. 1905GBnot in their usual nameBritish actor (1905-1945)
- Jack Douglassb. 1988USAmerican Internet personality (born 1988)
- Kate Douglassb. 2001USAmerican swimmer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 15K | #2,360 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 15K | #2,438 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 14K | #2,329 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Douglass mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Person from Douglas’, a Scottish locality and clan home; literally ‘dark stream’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Douglass have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 101 thousand people named Douglas, more than in any other country we hold.
- How do you pronounce Douglass?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdəɡɫəs/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Douglass?
- In the United States, the national register counted 101,458 people named Douglas in 2010, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/douglassThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Douglass”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.