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Stanley

in New York

There are 2,580 people with the last name "Stanley" in New York.

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Ranking in New York

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Stanley 497
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  1. is 493rd most common Dwyer
  2. is 494th most common Rossi
  3. is 495th most common Daniel
  4. is 496th most common Byrne
  5. is 497th most common Stanley
  6. is 498th most common Jensen
  7. is 499th most common Peralta
  8. is 500th most common Mclean
  9. is 501st most common Bowman

Most Common First Names for Stanley

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

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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Robert Stanley, NY (8 searches)
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