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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized form of Polish Stanisz (see Stanish).
  • Greek : probably a derivative of the Slavic personal name Stanislaw, although it has also been associated with the Greek vocabulary word stani ‘sheepfold’, ‘pen’.

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