Fun Facts About the Name Presleigh
- More than 2 thousand babies named Presleigh: U.S. records list 2,122 babies given the name Presleigh from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Presleigh Mean?
Presleigh is a modern spelling of the English name Presley, and it carries the same meaning: "priest's meadow" or "priest's clearing." The name is built from two Old English elements: prēost, meaning "priest," and lēah, meaning "woodland," "clearing," or "meadow." The -leigh ending is simply a respelling of that same second element, lēah, which appears in many English place names and surnames.
Because the second half of Presleigh is already the lēah element found in Presley, the spelling does not add a new meaning; it repeats the same Old English word in a different form. The literal sense is a priest's tract of cleared or open land, most likely a place name in origin rather than a description of a person.
Presleigh Name History & Origins
The base name is an English surname of the habitational type, meaning it began as a name for a family associated with a particular place. Surnames formed with prēost plus lēah are found in England, and the related surname Priestley shares the same first element.
Presley was in use as a given name in the English-speaking world by the 20th century, and the spelling Presleigh appeared later as part of a broad fashion for rewriting familiar names with the -leigh ending, as seen in forms such as Kayleigh and Ashleigh. The singer Elvis Presley, who bore Presley as a surname, made that surname widely familiar in the 1950s.
How Popular is the Name Presleigh?
Presleigh has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2015. Its best rank was #1,579 in 2015.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #2,273 | 81 | 0.0050% |
| 2024 | #2,393 | 76 | 0.0047% |
| 2023 | #2,171 | 88 | 0.0055% |
| 2022 | #2,117 | 91 | 0.0056% |
| 2021 | #1,786 | 114 | 0.0070% |
| 2020 | #1,867 | 104 | 0.0064% |
| 2019 | #1,762 | 117 | 0.0070% |
| 2018 | #1,838 | 111 | 0.0065% |
| 2017 | #1,986 | 100 | 0.0058% |
| 2016 | #1,892 | 107 | 0.0060% |
| 2015 | #1,579 | 139 | 0.0078% |
| 2014 | #1,834 | 111 | 0.0062% |
| 2013 | #1,805 | 114 | 0.0065% |
| 2012 | #1,995 | 98 | 0.0056% |
| 2011 | #2,014 | 98 | 0.0056% |
| 2010 | #2,133 | 93 | 0.0052% |
| 2009 | #2,355 | 83 | 0.0045% |
| 2008 | #2,502 | 76 | 0.0040% |
| 2007 | #3,769 | 43 | 0.0022% |
| 2006 | #3,358 | 49 | 0.0026% |
| 2005 | #3,711 | 40 | 0.0022% |
| 2004 | #3,553 | 42 | 0.0023% |
| 2003 | #4,183 | 32 | 0.0018% |
| 2002 | #4,865 | 25 | 0.0014% |
| 2001 | #6,251 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 2000 | #5,639 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 1999 | #6,759 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 1998 | #10,884 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1997 | #8,191 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1996 | #13,038 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1995 | #12,939 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1994 | #12,982 | 6 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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