Douglas is a distinctive girls' name in United States, ranking #14135 in 1996 with 5 recorded births. This places Douglas in the bottom 11% of ranked US girls' names for the year. Its actual usage is classified as Rare. The name reached its all-time peak in 2004 with 6 births ranking #14662. In 1996, approximately 1 in every 350,592 girls born was named Douglas. STABLE Recent data shows the name is currently stable.
Douglas is a classic Scottish name meaning "dark water". It has a calm, traditional strength and one of the clearest landscape meanings among long-standing British names.
The name began as a place and family name in Scotland before becoming a first name. It later spread widely across the English-speaking world and remained a solid classic for many decades.