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The stanton Surname

stanton Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of the extremely numerous places throughout England so called from Old English stan ‘stone’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. Most of them are named for their situation on stony ground, but in the case of Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire and Stanton Drew in Avon the reference is to the proximity of prehistoric stone monuments. The name has also sometimes been chosen by Ashkenazic Jews as an Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames. This surname has long been established in Ireland also.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The stanton name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the stanton family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of stanton Families in the US in 1920
Number of stanton families
 520-1038
 174-519		 1-173
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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