Stan - Meaning of Stan

What does Stan mean?

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

Stan is a form of the English Stanford.

Stan is also an English form of Stanislav.

Stan is also an English and Latin shortening of the English Stanley.

Stan is also a form of the English Stanton.

See also the related categories, english and latin.

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 2018.

Baby names that sound like Stan include Stann, Stane, Steen, Stein, Sten, Steyn, Stijn, Stoen, Stone, Saddim, Saddym, Satyam, Seaton, Seton, Sextyn, Shadmon, Sidnee, Sidney, Sidni, and Sidnie.

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

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.