Presley
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Meaning
priest's meadow
The story
Presley is an English place-surname, the priest's meadow, and for a hundred years America treated it as exactly that, a surname, under 210 a decade. Everyone knows whose. The odd, honest fact in our records is the timing of its first-name life: the climb begins in the 1990s, about 1,800, two decades after the man himself died, then 7,800, then 16,700 in the 2010s, with 9,000 so far this decade. And it changed columns on the way: this decade about 8,300 girls to 630 boys, a surname that entered the ledger as rock and roll and settled as a girls' name, the same pipeline that carried Blakely and Everleigh. Whether families hear Elvis, or just the -ley landing, the record cannot split. King, the title he wore, climbs in this same worklist batch, running just ahead; America, apparently, wants both.
How popular is Presley around the world?
In the United States, 8,967 babies were named Presley between 2020 and 2025.
Presley is on the official records of the United States, Canada, England and Wales, Ireland, Scotland, South Australia and Brazil.
United States
1 in 2,400
In the United States, 8,967 babies were named Presley between 2020 and 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Presley peaked in the 2020s.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Canada
1 in 5,500
In Canada, 58 girls named Presley were born in 2024, the 512th most common name among girls that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
First given names from provincial and territorial vital statistics across Canada; any name-sex-year under 5 is excluded at source, and small Quebec counts carry a randomized adjustment made at source. Shares divide by Statistics Canada’s count of live births for the year; the 2024 count is preliminary. Source: Statistics Canada, first names at birth (table 17-10-0147-01)
England and Wales
1 in 8,100
In England and Wales, 50 boys named Presley were born in 2025, the 702nd most common name among boys that year.
In England and Wales, 22 girls named Presley were born in 2025, ranked 1,407th among girls that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales
Ireland
1 in 14,000
In Ireland, 4 boys named Presley were born in 2025, the 676th most common name among boys that year.
The count never rose above 4 in a year, too few to chart.
Exact registered spellings from Irish vital statistics; any name under 3 in a year is withheld at source, and accented spellings (fadas) are recorded reliably only from 2018. Source: Central Statistics Office (Ireland), Irish babies' names
Scotland
1 in 15,000
In Scotland, 3 girls named Presley were registered in 2024, the 790th most common name among girls that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
Births registered in Scotland; different spellings count separately but accents are merged at source, and any spelling under 3 in total is suppressed. Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names
South Australia
1 in 18,0002017
In South Australia, 1 boy was registered as Presley in 2017.
The count never rose above 3 in a year, too few to chart.
Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names
Brazil
1 in 500,000
At the 2022 census, 369 people in Brazil were named Presley, ranked 16,487th, with a median age of 31.
Among people named Presley living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1990s than in any other decade.
people alive at the 2022 census, by decade of birth
People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
Austria
last on record 2018
Presley is not on the 2025 record for Austria, which publishes every first name down to a single birth, so the name was not given there that year.
The count never rose above 2 in a year, too few to chart.
Live births in Austria by year of birth, 1984–2025, from Statistik Austria’s first-name statistics; spellings that differ only by special characters are counted together (umlauts stay apart), every name down to a single birth is published, and the count covers babies with Austrian citizenship only until 2009, every baby from 2010, and from 2015 also births abroad to mothers living in Austria. Shares divide by Statistik Austria’s count of live births from 2010, and before that by the file’s own total for the year. Source: Statistik Austria - data.statistik.gv.at (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1, updated 2026-07-09)
Not on the record in Spain, Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, New Zealand and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
When you meet Presley
Most people given the name Presley in the United States are children or teenagers today. The name belongs to this generation.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
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