Stanley

in Alabama

There are 1,621 people with the last name "Stanley" in Alabama.

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Ranking in Alabama

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Stanley 344
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  1. is 340th most common Ballard
  2. is 341st most common Bryan
  3. is 342nd most common Jacobs
  4. is 343rd most common Weeks
  5. is 344th most common Stanley
  6. is 345th most common Baldwin
  7. is 346th most common Bridges
  8. is 347th most common Estes
  9. is 348th most common Sanford

Most Common First Names for Stanley

James, Robert, Michael, Jerry, John, Charles, David, Mary, Joseph, William



Meaning & History

English: habitational name from any of the various places, for example in Derbyshire, County Durham, Gloucestershire, Staffordshire, Wiltshire, and West Yorkshire, so named from Old English stān ‘stone’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.

Americanized form of any of various like-sounding names in other European languages, for example Polish Stanislawski and Greek Anastasiou.

FOREBEARS The explorer and journalist Sir Henry Morton Stanley (18411904) was born John Rowlands in Denbigh, Wales, but traveled as a cabin boy in 1858 from Liverpool, England, to New Orleans, LA, where he was adopted by a merchant surnamed Stanley. From the late 1860s he worked as a correspondent for the New York Herald, and traveled extensively in Africa.


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