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Type Surname (from nickname)
Usage Russian (Modern)
Scripts Сталин(Russian)
Other Forms FormsStalina
Meaning & History
Surname adopted by the Georgian-Soviet revolutionary and politician Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (1878-1953), whose birth name was Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili. He adopted it from the Russian word сталь (stal) meaning "steel".