Last name: STAPLETON
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All you have to know about the last name STAPLETON
Last name frequency
STAPLETON : This last name is indexed 98,427 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
STAPLETON : English and Irish: habitational name from any of various places called Stapleton (in Devon Gloucestershire Somerset Herefordshire Shropshire Leicestershire North Yorkshire Yorkshire Cumberland) all named in Old English with stapol ‘post pillar’ + tūn ‘farmstead estate’. The name is common in Ireland where it has been established since medieval times in the counties of Tipperary and Kilkenny.
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