Duncan

plural Duncans · alternative Donkin · alternative Dunkin

1. countableuncountableA 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

   c. 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, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]

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   "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, - - -

   1816, Walter Scott, Old Mortality, Samuel H. Parker, published 1836, page 232

   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.

   '2011, Sophie Hannah, Lasting Damage, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, pages 77–78

2. countableuncountableA Scottish surname originating as a patronymic.
3. countableuncountableA surname from Irish, a variant of Dinkin.
4. countableuncountableAn Irish surname, a variant of Donegan.
5. countableuncountableAn Irish surname, a variant of Dunican.
6. countableuncountableAn Irish surname, adopted as an anglicization of Ó Donnchadha (whence Donoghue).
7. countableuncountableA locality in Kangaroo Island council area, South Australia; named for politician John Duncan.
8. countableuncountableA city in the Regional District of Cowichan Valley, British Columbia, Canada; named for early settler William Chalmers Duncan.
9. A locale in the United States:
   1. countableuncountableA town in Greenlee County, Arizona; named for copper businessman Duncan Smith.
   2. countableuncountableA township in Mercer County, Illinois.
   3. countableuncountableA census-designated place in Hancock County, Iowa.
   4. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Casey County, Kentucky.
   5. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Mercer County, Kentucky.
   6. countableuncountableA township in Houghton County, Michigan.
   7. countableuncountableA town in Bolivar County, Mississippi.
   8. countableuncountableA township in Sullivan County, Missouri.
   9. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Webster County and Wright County, Missouri.
   10. countableuncountableA village in Platte County, Nebraska; named for early resident Wood B. Duncan.
   11. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Buckhorn Township, Harnett County, North Carolina.
   12. countableuncountableA city, the county seat of Stephens County, Oklahoma; named for early settler William Duncan.
   13. countableuncountableA township in Tioga County, Pennsylvania.
   14. countableuncountableA town in Spartanburg County, South Carolina; named for landowner Leroy Duncan.
10. countableuncountableA river in British Columbia, Canada; running 206 km near Mount Dawson into the Kootenay Lake; named for prospector John Duncan.
11. countableuncountableA short river in the Southern Alps, West Coast Region, New Zealand.