Given name & surname
Standish
“from the stony park”
Standish is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “from the stony park.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “from the stony park.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1919. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Standish through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1919
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1919. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,031 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Standish’s family of names
In English usage, Standish has a conventional equivalent in the Irish form Ainéislis. Standish has a related form in Standishe. Standish has a related form in Standysh.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Standish
- Standish Hayes O'GradyIrish writer (1832–1915)
- Standish James O'GradyIrish historian and writer (1846–1928)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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