Duncan

Proper noun

Duncan (countable and uncountable, plural Duncans)

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'dc. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
   • "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...1816, Walter Scott, Old Mortality, Samuel H. Parker, published 1836, page 232
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.
9. A town in Greenlee County, Arizona; named for copper businessman Duncan Smith.
10. A township in Mercer County, Illinois.
11. A census-designated place in Hancock County, Iowa.
12. An unincorporated community in Casey County, Kentucky.