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Stanley

in Massachusetts

There are 1,432 people with the last name "Stanley" in Massachusetts.

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Ranking in Massachusetts

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Stanley 450
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  1. is 446th most common Clifford
  2. is 447th most common Barbosa
  3. is 448th most common Guzman
  4. is 449th most common Wu
  5. is 450th most common Stanley
  6. is 451st most common Saunders
  7. is 452nd most common Hicks
  8. is 453rd most common Paquette
  9. is 454th most common Beaulieu

Most Common First Names for Stanley

Robert, John, David, James, Richard, Thomas, Michael, William, Joseph, Barbara

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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