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Stanley

in Illinois

There are 2,333 people with the last name "Stanley" in Illinois.

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Ranking in Illinois

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Stanley 377
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  1. is 373rd most common Casey
  2. is 374th most common Mcguire
  3. is 375th most common Caldwell
  4. is 376th most common Mccormick
  5. is 377th most common Stanley
  6. is 378th most common Webster
  7. is 379th most common Estrada
  8. is 380th most common Warner
  9. is 381st most common Barker

Most Common First Names for Stanley

Robert, John, James, Mark, William, Michael, David, Thomas, Richard, Ronald

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 (1841–1904) 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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