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Presleigh

Gender
Girl
Say it
PREZ-lee
Origin
English
US rank, 2025
#2,256 for girls

Presleigh is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “priest's clearing”. In 2025 it ranked 2,256th for girls in the US (81 babies).

What does Presleigh mean?

English: spelling of Presley, a variant of Priestley

“priest's clearing”

A spelling of Presley, the surname Elvis Presley made famous as a first name.

Is Presleigh a girl's or a boy's name?

Presleigh is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 81 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Presleigh in the US?

Rank in 2025
2,256th among girls
Babies in 2025
81 about 1 in 20,000 girls
Five-year trend
Falling down 26% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 81 girls in the US were named Presleigh, making it the 2,256th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,849th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 139 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.

Half of all the girls named Presleigh in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 1,635 girls in the US were given Presleigh or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #222, up from #2,256 for this spelling alone.

1994Busiest: 139 in 20152025
Presleigh in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202581#2,256
202476#2,389
202388#2,156
202291#2,103
2021114#1,780
2020105#1,849
2019117#1,755
2018111#1,830
2017100#1,976
2016107#1,890
2015139#1,576
2014111#1,830
2013114#1,792
201298#1,983
201198#2,000
201093#2,118
200983#2,337
200876#2,485
200743#3,720
200649#3,315
200540#3,642
200442#3,486
200332#4,105
200225#4,763
200118#6,062
200020#5,486
199915#6,478
19988#10,116
199711#7,737
19966#11,801
19956#11,778
19946#11,771

Names like Presleigh

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Presleigh

More English names

Every English name

Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Presleigh: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/presleigh, updated 20 October 2026.