Dougal

Dougal was the #4,275 boys' name in England & Wales in 2025 (4 babies).

Dougal as a boy’s name

  • US
  • England & Wales
  • Scotland
Dougal as a boy’s name, US, England & Wales, ScotlandBabies per 1,000 in the published list, 1880–2025, for US, England & Wales, Scotland. Gaps mark years with too few babies to be published.00.060.130.190.2518801900192019401960198020002020England & Wales
Dougal as a boy’s name, US, England & Wales, ScotlandBabies per 1,000 in the published list, 1880–2025, for US, England & Wales, Scotland. Gaps mark years with too few babies to be published.00.060.130.190.251880192019602000
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex in each published list. Breaks in a line are years with too few babies to be published.
Show the numbers
YearUSEngland & WalesScotland
2025—#4,275 (4)—
2024—#5,120 (3)#619 (4)
2023—#4,992 (3)—
2022——#522 (5)
2020—#3,848 (4)—
2019—#2,728 (7)#516 (5)
2018—#4,749 (3)—
2017—#3,449 (5)#532 (5)
2016—#4,810 (3)—
2015—#3,373 (5)#588 (4)
2014—#2,964 (6)#680 (3)
2013—#3,822 (4)—
2012—#3,039 (6)#568 (4)
2011—#2,039 (10)#544 (4)
2010—#2,629 (7)#426 (6)

The tide so far

  • Peaked in England & Wales in 2007 at #1,756.
  • Holding steady over the last five years.
  • In the England & Wales records since the data begins in 1996.

How common is it?

about 1 in 67,000 baby boys in the published England & Wales list for 2025.

In a group of 1,000 children born that year, you would expect to meet fewer than 1. How we work this out.