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Stanley

in Virginia

There are 4,429 people with the last name "Stanley" in Virginia.

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Ranking in Virginia

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Stanley 114
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  1. is 110th most common Russell
  2. is 111th most common Wallace
  3. is 112th most common Ross
  4. is 113th most common Lopez
  5. is 114th most common Stanley
  6. is 115th most common Hayes
  7. is 116th most common Bowman
  8. is 117th most common Griffin
  9. is 118th most common Graham

Most Common First Names for Stanley

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

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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