First name origin & meaning: American: Stone, rock First name variations: Stonee, Stoney Last name origins & meanings:
- English: from Old English stān ‘stone’, in any of
several uses. It is most commonly a topographic name, for someone who
lived either on stony ground or by a notable outcrop of rock or a
stone boundary-marker or monument, but it is also found as a metonymic
occupational name for someone who worked in stone, a mason or
stonecutter. There are various places in southern and western England
named with this word, for example in Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire,
Hampshire, Kent, Somerset, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire, and the
surname may also be a habitational name from any of these.
- Translation of various surnames in other languages, including
Jewish Stein, Norwegian Steine, and compound names
formed with this word.
- This name was brought independently to New England by many bearers
from the 17th century onward. Thomas Scott was one of the founders
of Hartford, CT, (coming from Cambridge, MA, with Thomas Hooker) in
1635.
Famous people with this last name:
Sharon Stone,
Oliver Stone This name appears in the following lists:
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