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Presley

Presley: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“priest's meadow”
Origin
Old English
Say it
PREZ-lee · 2 syllables
Used for
Girls (86% of all uses)

Transferred from an English surname derived from Old English preost and leah. It became a given name through surname-style use.

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How popular is Presley?

2024441 per million US babies
1880192019602000
Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Presley in 20241,468

2024 rank#224 girls

Peak year2014

Total US babies since 188035,268

Presley has been fairly stable over the last fifteen years.

Names like Presley

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Presleepriest's meadow · Old English
  • Audreynoble strength · Old English
  • Ashleyash tree clearing · Old English
  • Oakleyoak clearing · Old English
  • Hadleyheather field · Old English
  • Blakelydark wood or clearing · Old English
  • KimberlyCyneburg's meadow · Old English
  • Marleypleasant wood · Old English

Presley questions

What does the name Presley mean?

Presley means "priest's meadow". It comes from Old English. Transferred from an English surname derived from Old English preost and leah. It became a given name through surname-style use.

Is Presley a boy or girl name?

Presley is mainly a girl's name in US records (86% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Presley?

1,468 US babies were named Presley in 2024. Its peak year was 2014.

How do you pronounce Presley?

Presley is usually pronounced PREZ-lee.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.