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Also the name of the capital of the Falkland Islands!
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I love Stanley, it's a train conductor name, it reminds me of trains. I love riding on trains! It sounds very friendly, like a friendly train conductor.
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Dr. Stanley Milgram was an American psychologist and professor, best known for his infamous “Milgram Experiment” which tested obedience to an authority figure.
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Stanley Ann Dunham is the name of Barack Obama’s mother.
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Herb Edelman played Stanley Zbornak, the ex-husband of Dorothy Zbornak, in The Golden Girls.
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The real name of MC Hammer is Stanley.
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It is very ugly. Stanley is unattractive like a nerd. I would die before naming my son Stanley.
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This is the story of a man named Stanley...
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Stanley Hopkins is a police inspector in the collection of short stories, The Return of Sherlock Holmes. He strives to be just like the great detective, applying the science of deduction to his own investigations!
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In the Disney Channel show Gravity Falls, Stanley Pines is the real name of Grunkle Stan.
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Stanley Clarke is a famous smooth jazz and fusion bassist bearing the name. Alongside Marcus Miller he pioneered the bass guitar as a lead instrument in smooth jazz and was influential to other smooth jazz bassists such as Wayman Tisdale.
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It doesn't sound that attractive to me. I have a feeling that some people will start using this for girls...
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I personally LOVE this name!
It sounds so pleasing and cute in my ears!
When I hear this name, I think of a nice and cute young boy who adores his friends and family!
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It sounds so pleasing and cute in my ears!
When I hear this name, I think of a nice and cute young boy who adores his friends and family!
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Stanley is the best name ever because it’s my name!
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Stanley is a name that may sound unisex like Riley and Bailey, but Stanley is a masculine name and it would sound unique on a girl just like any other boy name on girls. Personally, I like the name Stanley for a boy only! I rather name my daughter Stanley and Anthony than Michael since Michael sounds 100 times more masculine than those two names but I wouldn’t use any of those three names on a girl.
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There are some girls called Stanley, and I think it’s pretty like that. I’m not fond of the masculine usage. It’s especially pretty if they have feminine middle names.
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In 2018, 56 is the most common age for an American (U.S.) Stanley who is registered male with the Social Security Administration. It is the 285th most common male first name for living U.S. citizens.
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Stanley is the full name of Stan Marsh from the TV show South Park.
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Stanley is a pretty cool name. Strong for a man and nice for a little boy. Stan is also pretty nice, and I LOVE South Park, though that wouldn’t be a sole reason to name my kid Stanley.
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Stan Musial! “Stan the Man” a beloved baseball player for the St. Louis Cardinals! My personal opinion: this is a good strong name and “Stan” is handsome and athletic.
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The name STANLEY means firm or handsome.
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Stanley Bernard Livingston is an American actor, best known for playing Richard "Chip" Douglas, the third son of Steve Douglas on the long-running television series My Three Sons. He and MacMurray were the only two actors in the cast who appeared throughout the entire series. Stanley's own younger brother Barry played his adopted brother "Ernie" in later seasons.
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I love the name Stanley! A very handsome English classic! :)
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It sounds a bit old-fashioned to me but I've met a cute guy named Stanley so I guess this name is not too bad :)
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Two great men I know are named Stanley. Stanley Everett was my grandfather and Stanley Arthur is my little brother. Both very manly and my brother was something of a stud in his younger days, nothing nerdy about him at all. I love the nickname Stan. Very strong and masculine.
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I think Stanley deserves a comeback. It's a handsome, sophisticated name without being too stuffy. It makes me think of the Stanley Cup, Stanley Yelnats, the main character in the book Holes, and Stan Marsh from South Park. An association for everyone's taste, I guess.
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One of my best friends is named Stanley, and goes by "Stan". It isn't really a name I'd like on its own, but I associate it with my friend so it's grown on me. He is neither a "puny nerd" nor a "complete jerk", etc., the other comments listed above. He is a gentleman!
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Okay, this seems like a name only immature nerds (although I'd rarely use those two words in the same sentence) would name their child. You could name him in honor of Jack Stanley Hodgins from Bones, or Stan Lee. No thank you!
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Stanley Tucci (born November 11, 1960) is a very talented American actor, writer, film producer and film director. He has starred in such movies as The Devil Wears Prada, Julie & Julia, The Lovely Bones, and The Terminal, among many other memorable works.
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I find this name really funny, for reasons I'll never know. If I ever hear a mom calling out "Stanley, let's go!" I would burst into giggles. I don't know, it just sounds like a comedian name to me.
That being said, it's a cool name. It ages well, and it could fit different types of guys. I wouldn't use it though; I don't want to spend all of my child's life chuckling at the sound of his name.
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That being said, it's a cool name. It ages well, and it could fit different types of guys. I wouldn't use it though; I don't want to spend all of my child's life chuckling at the sound of his name.
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Stanley is the capital of the Falkland islands.
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Stanley Martin Lieber (b. 1922), known as "Stan Lee". Legendary American comic book writer, editor, actor, producer, publisher, television personality, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics. He was inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1995.
I can really see this name taking off with nerds as a result of Stan Lee being such a cult hero.
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I can really see this name taking off with nerds as a result of Stan Lee being such a cult hero.
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I believe this name was often adopted by immigrants as an English "translation" of the Slavic name Stanis³aw / Stanislas / Stanislaos / Stanislav.
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Personally, I really like the name Stanley, although I prefer it as a last name. Never cared for the nickname 'Stan'.
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I don't like this name. The one I knew was a complete jerk, and the Stanley Kowalski association is quite terrible.
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When I hear the name Stanley, I picture a high school athlete, maybe a bit of a mama's boy. I don't know why. It's a good name.
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Stan Laurel is a famous bearer, although his real name was Arthur Stanley Jefferson.
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My impression of this name is negative, as it always makes me think of unpleasant guys, be they frat boys or sexist middle-aged jerks who have really let themselves go, yet are die-hard believers in the bizarre idea that women lose all their sex appeal at 35. I'm not sure where this idea comes from. It IS a name of a character in that cappy, overrated piece of garbage program South Park, but he's just a kid, so the idea must come from somewhere else. Well, SP is just another reason not to like the name for me. And hey, it's not like it sounds nice.
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Stanley Holloway (1890-1982) is an English actor. He is famous for his character roles on stage and screen, especially that of Eliza Doolittle's father in My Fair Lady.
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Stanley is the name of the car that founded Radiator Springs in the Pixar/Disney movie Cars.
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There's a movie with Jane Fonda called 'Stanley and Iris'.
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Funny because I personally find it quite unattractive. It makes me think of a puny nerd.
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Stanley is an attractive name.
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Stanley Kowalski is Stella's brute of a husband in Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire".
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Stanley Yelnats is the hero of the movie 'Holes'. He is something like Stanley Yelnats the second or Stanley Yelnats the third. (The neat thing is that Yelnats is Stanley spelled backwards.)
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Stanley (Stan) is one of the South Park characters.
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Famous bearer: Stanley Kubrick, the film director.
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Could be associated to the Stanley Cup.
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