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Stanley

in New Jersey

There are 994 people with the last name "Stanley" in New Jersey.

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Ranking in New Jersey

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Stanley 674
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  1. is 670th most common Olson
  2. is 671st most common Silver
  3. is 672nd most common Escobar
  4. is 673rd most common Welsh
  5. is 674th most common Stanley
  6. is 675th most common Donohue
  7. is 676th most common Mulligan
  8. is 677th most common Contreras
  9. is 678th most common Bautista

Most Common First Names for Stanley

John, William, James, Michael, Robert, Arthur, Richard, Mary, George

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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