Stanley: Name Meaning, Popularity and Info on BabyNames.com (2024)

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What is the full meaning of the name Stanley? ›

Meaning:Stony meadow. A habitational name of British origin, Stanley is a boy's name that means “stony field.” It comes from the Old English words stan—“stone”—and leah—“clearing”—and refers to people who come from stony meadows.

You are spiritually intense and can sting or charm. Your name brings love and new starts into life and attracts money. In business, you are the creator and promoter of original ideas and usually enjoy considerable financial success.

Noted US namesakes include movie directors Stanley Kramer and Stanley Kubrick and actor Stanley Tucci. Stanley had a long run in the Top 100--from 1890 to 1959.

Stanley is a toponymic surname, a contraction of stan (a form of "stone") and leigh (meadow), later also being used as a masculine given name.

English: habitational name from any of various places called Stanley, including those in Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Durham, Gloucestershire, and Wiltshire, named with Old English stān 'stone, rock' + lēah 'woodland clearing'.

This English name has been established in Ireland since the 13th century where it was Gaelicized as de Stainléigh.

The Stanley family (or Audley-Stanley family) is an English family with many notable members, including the Earls of Derby and the Barons Audley who descended from the early holders of Audley and Stanley, Staffordshire.

In the late 19th century, Stanley was already a solid choice in a name for baby boys. By the turn of the 20th century Stanley was already a Top 100 favorite coming in 77th place in 1900. In fact, Stanley maintained Top 100 status for 70 consecutive years (1890-1959).

His first name is his last name backwards, which is a family tradition: he is actually Stanley Yelnats IV. The Yelnats family is poor because of a curse brought upon them by Stanley's ''no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather,'' Elya Yelnats.

Is the name Stanley making a comeback? ›

And so in just a few years, it really did make this huge comeback. And so we're going to talk about the four things that this article pulls out that Stanley did that contributed to this huge comeback in success. It took them from 70 million to 750 million in just a few years.

With an average elementary class size of 482 in the US, an individual with the name Stanley would have a a 3.987% probability of going to school with a boy named Stanley.

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There is no relevant name to Stanley in polish language. Sometimes some people compare it to polish name Stanisław as some Polish emigrants abbreviated it to Stan but their etymology is completely different. The English etymology derive Stanley from stone and meadow and Polish Stanisław means “ be famous".

The name Stanley is a girl's name of English origin meaning "near the stony meadow". Perfect example of how your perception of a name can change when you apply it to the opposite gender: when used for a girl, Stanley suddenly becomes an attractive, upper-crusty name ala Ansley or Finley.

Elya and his wife have a son who they name Stanley Yelnats because they like that Stanley is Yelnats spelled backwards. Even though they all work very hard, they have a lot of bad luck in their lives and Elya begins to believe that Madame Zeroni has cursed him.