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Stanley

in South Carolina

There are 1,653 people with the last name "Stanley" in South Carolina.

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Ranking in South Carolina

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Stanley 272
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  1. is 268th most common Holland
  2. is 269th most common Dean
  3. is 270th most common Armstrong
  4. is 271st most common Lynch
  5. is 272nd most common Stanley
  6. is 273rd most common Morrison
  7. is 274th most common Spencer
  8. is 275th most common Gilbert
  9. is 276th most common Dunn

Most Common First Names for Stanley

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

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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