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Duncan

A male given name; the name of two early saints and of two kings of Scotland.
- a. 1606, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Macbeth: Act III, Scene I:
  For them the gracious Duncan I have murder'd
- 2011 Sophie Hannah, Lasting Damage, Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN 978 0340980651, 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.
A surname.
Several places in the U.S.A. and one in Canada.

given name

Duncan

A male given name; the name of two early saints and of two kings of Scotland.
- a. 1606, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Macbeth: Act III, Scene I:
  For them the gracious Duncan I have murder'd
- 2011 Sophie Hannah, Lasting Damage, Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN 978 0340980651, 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.
A surname.
Several places in the U.S.A. and one in Canada.

given name