When Sione Fonua Kimoana was born in 1930, in Tefisi, Vava'u, Tonga, his father, Fonua Kimoana, was 30 and his mother, 'Eseta Fei'iloakitohi Tuitufu, was 27. He had at least 1 son. He died in 1951, at the age of 21, and was buried in Tefisi, Vava'u, Tonga.
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Probably for the most part a transferred use of the surname, which originally denoted someone who lived near a large boulder or outcrop. In other cases it may derive directly from the vocabulary word (Old English stān), and be chosen as representing qualities of strength and endurance.
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