Duncan

Anglicized from Scottish Gaelic Donnchadh, from donn (“brown”) + chadh (“chief, noble”)

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdʌŋ.kən/

Duncan

1. A male given name; the name of two early saints and of two kings of Scotland.
   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i]:

     For them the gracious Duncan I have murder'd

   • 2011 Sophie Hannah, Lasting Damage, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, pages 77-78:

     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.

2. A surname​.
3. Several places in the U.S.A. and one in Canada.
   1. An unincorporated community in Georgetown Township, Floyd County, Indiana.
   2. A city in Oklahoma, USA, and the county seat of Stephens County.
   3. A city on Vancouver Island in British Colombia, Canada.

• duncani
• Duncanville