Dugay Family History
Dugay Name Meaning
French: patronymic with fused preposition and definite article du ‘of the’ from Gay ‘cheerful’. French: habitational name from a place called Dugay (for example in Charente Dordogne and Rhône). Altered form of French Duguay in part cognate with 1 and 2 above. Hispanic (Philippines): probably an altered form of Spanish (Navarre) Ducay unexplained.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022