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Stanley

in West Virginia

There are 1,598 people with the last name "Stanley" in West Virginia.

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Ranking in West Virginia

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Stanley 107
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  1. is 103rd most common Ellis
  2. is 104th most common Cole
  3. is 105th most common Payne
  4. is 106th most common Watson
  5. is 107th most common Stanley
  6. is 108th most common Rhodes
  7. is 109th most common Coleman
  8. is 110th most common Burns
  9. is 111th most common Bryant

Most Common First Names for Stanley

Charles, James, Mary, David, Richard, William, Robert, Michael, Patricia, Gary

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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