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The stapleton Surname

stapleton Name Meaning and History

Irish, of English origin: habitational name from any of various places in England, for example in Cumbria, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Leicestershire, Shropshire, Somerset, and North Yorkshire, so named from Old English stapol ‘post’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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stapleton Family Facts

Distribution of stapleton Families in the US in 1920
Number of stapleton families
 131-259
 44-130		 1-43
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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