Duncan

name

Etymology: * As a Scottish Gaelic and Irish surname, from Donnchadh, a name composed of donn (“brown”) + cath (“battle”). Also spelled as Donagh and Donaghue, Donahue. * Also as an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Duinnchinn, from donn (“brown”) + ceann (“head”).

1. A male given name from Scottish Gaelic anglicized from Scottish Gaelic Donnchadh; the name of two early saints and of two kings of Scotland.

   “For them the gracious Duncan I have murder'd”

   “"Country?" replied Cuddie; "ou, the country's weel eneugh, and it werena that dour deevil, Calver'se, ( they ca' him Dundee now) that's stirring about yet in the Highlands, they say, with a' the Donalds, and Duncans, and Dugalds, that ever wore bottomless breeks, driving about wi' him, to set things asteer again, - - -”

2. A Scottish surname originating as a patronymic.
3. A surname from Irish, a variant of Dinkin.
4. An Irish surname, a variant of Donegan.
5. An Irish surname, a variant of Dunican.
6. An Irish surname, adopted as an anglicization of Ó Donnchadha (whence Donoghue).
7. A locality in Kangaroo Island council area, South Australia; named for politician John Duncan.
8. A city in the Regional District of Cowichan Valley, British Columbia, Canada; named for early settler William Chalmers Duncan.
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23. A river in British Columbia, Canada; running 206 km near Mount Dawson into the Kootenay Lake; named for prospector John Duncan.
24. A short river in the Southern Alps, West Coast Region, New Zealand.