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Stone

in Massachusetts

There are 3,291 people with the last name "Stone" in Massachusetts.

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Ranking in Massachusetts

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Stone 118
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  1. is 114th most common Ross
  2. is 115th most common Connolly
  3. is 116th most common Sousa
  4. is 117th most common Gray
  5. is 118th most common Stone
  6. is 119th most common Gallagher
  7. is 120th most common Richard
  8. is 121st most common Turner
  9. is 122nd most common Gordon

Most Common First Names for Stone

Robert, David, Richard, Michael, William, James, John, Jeffrey, Peter

Meaning & History

English: from Old English stān ‘stone’, in any of several uses. It is most commonly a topographic name, for someone who lived either on stony ground or by a notable outcrop of rock or a stone boundary-marker or monument, but it is also found as a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in stone, a mason or stonecutter. There are various places in southern and western England named with this word, for example in Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Kent, Somerset, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire, and the surname may also be a habitational name from any of these.

Translation of various surnames in other languages, including Jewish Stein, Norwegian Steine, and compound names formed with this word.

FOREBEARS This name was brought independently to New England by many bearers from the 17th century onward. Thomas Scott was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, (coming from Cambridge, MA, with Thomas Hooker) in 1635.Gregory Stone (1590–1672) came to North America in 1635, and is buried in the old burial ground at Cambridge MA.Thomas Stone (1743–87), one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, was born into a prosperous family at Poynton Manor, MD. He was a descendant of William Stone (born c.1603), who had emigrated to VA from Northamptonshire in England around 1628 and who later became governor of MD.

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