Standish Family History
Standish Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place in Lancashire (now part of
Greater Manchester), so named from Old English stan ‘stone’
+ edisc ‘pasture’. There is another place so named in
Gloucestershire, but it does not seem to be the source of the surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Standish Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Standish families
 43 - 83  15 - 42 |
 1 - 14  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Standish families
|
152 - 301 51 - 151 |
1 - 50 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Standish last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Standish Family Origin
Standish Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Standish
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Standish Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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