Duncan is a
Scottishsurname. The Scottish Gaelic name Donncheann or Donnchadh arebynames composed of the elements donn, meaning "brown" or "dark" from
Donn a Gaelic God; and chadh, meaning "chief" or "noble".[1][2][3] In some cases when the surname was used in
County Sligo, Ireland, it is an Anglicized form of the Irish Gaelic name
MacDonough or Mac Donnchadha and Ó Duinnchinn, meaning "descendant of Donncheann". The surname Duncan is represented in
Scottish Gaelic as MacDhonn.
^Hanks, Patrick; Hodges, Flavia (2006). Hardcastle, Kate (ed.). Oxford Dictionary of Names (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 81, 402.
ISBN978-0-19-861060-1.
^Ó hÓgáin, Dáithí (1999). The Sacred Isle: Belief and religion in pre-Christian Ireland. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 27, 58.
^Ó hÓgáin, Dáithí (1991). Myth, Legend & Romance: An encyclopaedia of the Irish folk tradition. Prentice Hall Press. pp. 165–166, 154.
Surname list
This page lists people with the
surnameDuncan. If an
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given name(s) to the link.
Duncan is a
Scottishsurname. The Scottish Gaelic name Donncheann or Donnchadh arebynames composed of the elements donn, meaning "brown" or "dark" from
Donn a Gaelic God; and chadh, meaning "chief" or "noble".[1][2][3] In some cases when the surname was used in
County Sligo, Ireland, it is an Anglicized form of the Irish Gaelic name
MacDonough or Mac Donnchadha and Ó Duinnchinn, meaning "descendant of Donncheann". The surname Duncan is represented in
Scottish Gaelic as MacDhonn.
^Hanks, Patrick; Hodges, Flavia (2006). Hardcastle, Kate (ed.). Oxford Dictionary of Names (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 81, 402.
ISBN978-0-19-861060-1.
^Ó hÓgáin, Dáithí (1999). The Sacred Isle: Belief and religion in pre-Christian Ireland. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 27, 58.
^Ó hÓgáin, Dáithí (1991). Myth, Legend & Romance: An encyclopaedia of the Irish folk tradition. Prentice Hall Press. pp. 165–166, 154.
Surname list
This page lists people with the
surnameDuncan. If an
internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that
link by adding the person's
given name(s) to the link.