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Stanley

in Pennsylvania

There are 2,061 people with the last name "Stanley" in Pennsylvania.

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Ranking in Pennsylvania

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Stanley 435
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  1. is 431st most common Byers
  2. is 432nd most common Frazier
  3. is 433rd most common Nicholson
  4. is 434th most common Bates
  5. is 435th most common Stanley
  6. is 436th most common Stahl
  7. is 437th most common Houser
  8. is 438th most common English
  9. is 439th most common Ramsey

Most Common First Names for Stanley

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

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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