{{unreferenced|date=August 2016}} '''Dugal''' or '''Dugald''' is a surname with multiple origins. In some cases it is derived from the Gaelic personal name ''Dùghall'' (variously spelt), or else from a reduced form of the surname ''MacDougall'' (which is an Anglicised surname originating from a patronymic form of ''Dùghall'', ''Dubhghall'', etc.). The Gaelic ''Dùghall'' and ''Dubhghall'' are composed of elements ''dubh'' and ''gall'', meaning "dark" and "stranger." ''Fingal'' is a Gaelic name which means "fair stranger."
In other cases, the surname ''Dugal'' is of French origin. In other cases, the surname is of Punjabi origin, as a Khatri and Sikh name based upon the name of a Khatri clan. This Indian surname is more often spelt ''Duggal''.
Dugal is also a surname of a Marathi family originally given by the rulers of the Peshwa dynasty meaning the third line people in the war.
== People == * Rasika Dugal (born 1985) , Indian actress * Jules Dugal (1888–1975), Canadian ice hockey coach * Louis-Auguste Dugal (1869–1926), Canadian politician * Marianne Dugal, Canadian musician
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