Pressley

A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 13 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
13
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Pressley by the numbers

Pressley was given to 13 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 40 babies in 2007, making it a 2000s name.

What we can tell you about Pressley

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Pressley. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Presleypriest's meadow1,667 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Pressley

Names that are said the same way as Pressley, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Presleepriest's meadow; a respelling of Presley218 in the US (2017)
  • Presleighpriest's meadow; a form of Presley100 in the US (2017)
  • Preslei6 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Pressley

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