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Stanley

in the US

There are 76,560 people with the last name "Stanley" in the United States.

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Stanley 277
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  1. is 273rd most common Beck
  2. is 274th most common Tran
  3. is 275th most common Banks
  4. is 276th most common Hopkins
  5. is 277th most common Stanley
  6. is 278th most common Barnett
  7. is 279th most common Vargas
  8. is 280th most common Bates
  9. is 281st most common Craig

Most Common First Names for Stanley

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

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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