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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of various places, for example in Berkshire, Lancashire, and Wiltshire, so called from Old English stān ‘stone’ + denu ‘valley’, or from another on the Isle of Wight, the second element of which is Old English dūn ‘hill’.

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