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Stanley

in Kentucky

There are 2,072 people with the last name "Stanley" in Kentucky.

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Ranking in Kentucky

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Stanley 219
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  1. is 215th most common Ball
  2. is 216th most common Franklin
  3. is 217th most common Williamson
  4. is 218th most common Pierce
  5. is 219th most common Stanley
  6. is 220th most common Griffin
  7. is 221st most common Bush
  8. is 222nd most common Lowe
  9. is 223rd most common Griffith

Most Common First Names for Stanley

James, David, William, Michael, Mary, John, Charles, Larry, Robert, Betty

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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