Ok I have two images of
Douglas. One is of
Doug, my best friend's totally weird, gross dad. Her parents had her when they were "old" so by the time we were twelve they were suuuper old (he was probably fifty-five or something) and it was always weird. He was always so innapropriate and gross-old-man-ish; smelly and scruffy and ogling her friends and snapping their bra straps. EW GROSS.
The other is of a dashing, old-timey gent from Scotland in the Masons. I worked in the local
Mason archives one summer and had to accession like a million old application forms from the Edwardian era, and there were so many Douglases. I wrote the name out a billion times and by the end of the summer I was in love with how
Douglas looked in my own handwriting. And hated how
Alexander looked.
so I feel you on the sometimes good, sometimes bad thing. I think it's still a little bit dated in a way, it's a "dad name", like
Linda and
Brenda are "mom names". Overall, I prefer the similar
Duncan, which seems less creepy old man and more friendly towards revival. And it looks pretty good in my handwriting too.