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staple Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from Middle English stapel ‘post’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived near a boundary post, or a habitational name from some place named with this word (Old English stapel), as for example Staple in Kent or Staple Fitzpaine in Somerset.
  2. Americanized spelling of German Stapel.

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

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Distribution of staple Families in the US in 1920
Number of staple families
 13-24
 5-12		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 19 - Messages: 27
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Staple families England prior to 1700. Art Staples 2
Staple(s),in Ky. cwcnlc1 3
Pittsburgh Pa Staples ca 1900 cxpallas 0
Sir John Staple living in Gosport, Hampshire, UK circa 1800 Ray Ann Farington-Alt 0
Staple, Staples, Stapel Family History Arthur Staples 0
Peter Staple[s] of Kittery, ME. Fred Staples 0
Ann Staples/Steples married John Garretson PBarnes4834 0
staple-vanvleit families claudia stewart 0
Staple Family David Hughes 0
STAPLE, parish of Mylor, Cornwall @@richard_milsom@yahoo.com 0
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