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Stanley

in North Carolina

There are 5,176 people with the last name "Stanley" in North Carolina.

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Ranking in North Carolina

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Stanley 138
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  1. is 134th most common Elliott
  2. is 135th most common Holland
  3. is 136th most common Wells
  4. is 137th most common Lopez
  5. is 138th most common Stanley
  6. is 139th most common Joyner
  7. is 140th most common Shaw
  8. is 141st most common Bowman
  9. is 142nd most common Crawford

Most Common First Names for Stanley

James, Robert, William, John, David, Michael, Charles, Mary, Thomas, Kenneth

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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James Stanley, NC (75 searches)
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