Popularity of the last name by country
Belgium
- West-Vlaanderen (144)
- Bruxelles-Capitale | Brussel-Hoofdstad (31)
- Antwerpen (27)
- Hainaut (12)
- Oost-Vlaanderen (11)
- Liège (9)
- Namur (4)
- Vlaams-Brabant (2)
- Brabant wallon (1)
- Luxembourg (1)
All countries
- United Kingdom (212,542)
- United States (146,242)
- New Zealand (23,476)
- Australia (14,435)
- Ireland (13,581)
- Canada (7,559)
- France (6,371)
- Unknown country (2,211)
- Italy (1,099)
- Netherlands (901)
- Germany (736)
- Denmark (478)
- India (471)
- Switzerland (416)
- Spain (414)
- Russian Federation (300)
- Belgium (285)
- Colombia (270)
- Sweden (266)
- South Africa (152)
- Jamaica (139)
- Gibraltar (130)
- Mexico (129)
- China (124)
- Finland (109)
- Argentina (107)
- Austria (106)
- Greece (94)
- Egypt (92)
- Haiti (75)
- Turkey (69)
- Poland (60)
- Algeria (55)
- Czech republic (52)
- Paraguay (51)
- Chile (47)
- Peru (47)
- Ukraine (45)
- Estonia (37)
- Indonesia (36)
Origine of last name
DUNCAN : 1: Scottish: from the Older Scots personal name Dunecan itself from the traditional Irish royal name Donnchad(h) derived from donn ‘brown-haired’ + cath ‘battle’. Judging by the Scots form the Scottish Gaelic intermediary seems to have been understood as containing ceann ‘head’ as if the whole name meant ‘brown head’; compare sense 2. In Ireland the name was Anglicized as Donagh or Donaghue. Compare <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Donahue">Donahue</a>.2: Irish: used as an Anglicized equivalent of Gaelic Ó Duinnchinn ‘descendant of Donncheann’ a byname composed of the elements donn ‘brown-haired man’ or ‘chieftain’ + ceann ‘head’.
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