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Stan - Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Stan

[ 1 syll. (s)tan, st-an ] The boy name Stan is pronounced STAEN †. Stan is of Slavonic and Old English origin. It is used mainly in English.

Stan is an English form of the Czech, English, German, Russian, and Slavic Stanislav.

Stan is also a short form of the English Stanley.

Stan is uncommon as a baby boy name. At the modest height of its usage in 1959, 0.019% of baby boys were named Stan. It had a ranking of #385 then. The baby name has fallen out of favor since then, and is used only on an infrequent scale now. Within the family of boy names directly related to Stan, Stanley was the most popular in 2008.

Baby names that sound like Stan include the Slavic Stane, the Scandinavian Steen, the Dutch and Scandinavian Stein, the Scandinavian Sten, the Dutch Steyn, the English Stone, the Arabic Saddam, the Scottish Seathan, the English Sidney, the English Sidon, the Czech Stana, the Czech Stano, the name Steadman, the name Stedman, the Scottish Steenie, the name Steffon, the Russian Stenya, the Dutch Stijn, the name Stoney, and the name Stonie.

Details of famous persons named Stan:
Author Stan Lee, born 22 December 1922, New York, New York.
Comedians Stan Laurel, Ulverston, England and Harlem, Georgia.

 



† Pronunciation for Stan: S as in "sea (S.IY)" ; T as in "tea (T.IY)" ; AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)"


 
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