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Stanley

in Rhode Island

There are 217 people with the last name "Stanley" in Rhode Island.

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Ranking in Rhode Island

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Stanley 528
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  1. is 524th most common Peckham
  2. is 525th most common Batista
  3. is 526th most common Bernard
  4. is 527th most common Saccoccio
  5. is 528th most common Stanley
  6. is 529th most common Travers
  7. is 530th most common Cox
  8. is 531st most common Michaud
  9. is 532nd most common Berube

Most Common First Names for Stanley

John, Richard, Barbara, David, Diane, Karen, Michael, Adam, Ann

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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