Dugas is used as a family name or surname in France. It is 5 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Dugas
No. of characters: 5
Origin: France
Meaning: Mostly found in the Ille-et-Vilaine and neighboring departments. Means the person who lives in a place called the Gas, the Gast, or who originated. The name means wasteland. They are found in the village of Gas Eure-et-Loir and Gast Calvados.

How popular is Dugas?

Dugas is common in France.

Dugas is ranked 28668 on our list.

As per 2010 US census, number of Dugases plummeted by 0.6793871 per cent to 6871 since 2000 and slipped by 409 spots and ranked at 5093. The last name was found in around 23 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 81.59 83.72
Black 14.5 13.56
Hispanic or Latino 2.05 1.27
Others 1.16 1.01
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.45 0.26
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.25 0.17
Dugas is quite popular family name mostly used in United States while Canada is ahead in terms of density. Around 17629 people have been found who wears Dugas as their family name. Dugas is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
656,580 India9
119,730 Brazil3
67,494 South Africa3
18,718 Thailand2
95,312 Argentina2
13,552 Qatar2
20,595 China2
3,478 Haiti2
131,225 Spain2
35,969 Denmark2
810,193 Indonesia1
62,864 New Zealand1
7,292 Vietnam1
90,903 Moldova1
19,533 Uruguay1
168 Wallis and Futuna1
1,005 The Gambia1
8,500 Dominican Republic1
3,993 El Salvador1
42,479 Greece1
7,941 Guatemala1
20,172 Hungary1
31,207 Ireland1
9,926 Ivory Coast1
56,169 Mexico1
2,309 Monaco1
118,015 Netherlands1
2,724 New Caledonia1
4,171 Rwanda1
50,307 Saudi Arabia1
971 Seychelles1
7,895 South Korea1
91,024 Belgium1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
36,547 Switzerland27
162,376 Ukraine20
54,540 Czech Republic18
100,009 Australia15
442,509 Russia12
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
53,069 England70
Countries with hundreds of Dugas:
2,516 Slovakia342
43,536 Germany235
Countries with thousands of Dugas:
4,421 United States9,030
938 Canada5,347
3,118 France2,461
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Comments

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Neomi Chery
 Dugas is a surname, topographic name, that is to say the gast, wasteland, indicates the location of the house on the outskirts of a gast, nickname of the inhabitants.

Dugas Namesakes

  • Ale Dugas, Actress
  • Alvan L. Dugas, Author
  • Amandine Dugas, Actress
  • Joseph Louis Euclide Dugas, Political figure
  • François Octave Dugas, Politician
  • Firmin Dugas, Political figure
  • Firmin Dugas, Political figure
  • Gaëtan Dugas, Flight attendant
  • Gaëtan Dugas, Flight attendant
  • Gaëtan Dugas, Flight attendant
  • Shawn Dugas played the vital character of Van Loon in 2010 musical film The Oldest Story Ever Told.

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