Duncan

English Alternative forms surname en Donkin Dunkin Etymology As a en gd - and en ga - surname, from gd Donnchadh, a name composed of ga donn brown + ga cath battle. Also spelled as en Donagh and en Donaghue, en Donahue. Also as an Irish surname, Anglicized from ga Ó Duinnchinn, from ga donn brown + ga ceann head. Pronunciation en /ˈdʌŋkən/ GenAm,RP en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Duncan.wav Southern England en ʌŋkən 2 Proper noun ~ s en male Scottish Gaelic anglicized from en gd Donnchadh; the name of two early saints and of two kings of Scotland. III i For them the gracious Duncan I have murder'd en 1816 w:Walter Scott Old Mortality Samuel H. Parker 1836 232 "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, - - - en 2011 w:Sophie Hannah Lasting Damage 77–78 Hodder & Stoughton 9780340980651 His full name is Benji Duncan Geoffrey Rigby-Monk. 'You're joking,' Kit said, when I first told him. 'Benji? Not even Benjamin?' Duncan and Geoffrey are his two granddads'names ― both unglamorous and old-dufferish, in Kit's view, and not worth inflicting on a new generation ― and Rigby-Monk is a fusion of Fran's surname and Anton's. en Scottish patronymics. en Irish, a variant of Dinkin. en Irish, a variant of Donegan. en Irish, a variant of Dunican. en Irish, adopted as an anglicization of ga Ó Donnchadha (whence Donoghue). en locality carea/Kangaroo Island s/South Australia ; named for politician John Duncan (Australian politician) John Duncan. en city rdist/Cowichan Valley p/British Columbia c/Canada ; named for early settler William Chalmers Duncan. en locale c/US: en town co/Greenlee County s/Arizona ; named for copper businessman Duncan Smith. en twp co/Mercer County s/Illinois. en CDP co/Hancock County s/Iowa. en ucomm co/Casey County s/Kentucky. en ucomm co/Mercer County s/Kentucky. en twp co/Houghton County s/Michigan. en town co/Bolivar County s/Mississippi. en twp co/Sullivan County s/Missouri. en ucomm co/Webster County and co/Wright County s/Missouri. en village co/Platte County s/Nebraska ; named for early resident Wood B. Duncan. en ucomm twp:Suf/Buckhorn co/Harnett County s/North Carolina. en city/county seat co/Stephens County s/Oklahoma ; named for early settler William Duncan. en twp co/Tioga County s/Pennsylvania. en town co/Spartanburg County s/South Carolina ; named for landowner Leroy Duncan. en river p/British Columbia c/Canada ; running 206 km near Mount Dawson into the Kootenay Lake ; named for prospector John Duncan. en short river in the range/Southern Alps r:Suf/West Coast c/New Zealand. Derived terms en Duncan Phyfe duncani Duncans Creek Duncanville Dunky IDS Translations given name Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 鄧肯 Dèngkěn Irish: ga Donncha, ga Donnchadh m Korean: ko 덩컨 deongkeon Manx: gv Donaghey Marathi: mr डंकन Russian: ru Дункан m Scottish Gaelic: gd Donnchadh Anagrams en acdnnu nucDNA