Preslie
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- PREZ-lee
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #4,171 for girls
Preslie is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “priest's clearing”. In 2025 it ranked 4,171st for girls in the US (34 babies).
What does Preslie mean?
English: spelling of Preslee, itself a spelling of Presley, a variant of Priestley
“priest's clearing”
A spelling of Presley, the surname Elvis Presley made famous as a first name.
Meaning borrowed from Preslee.
Is Preslie a girl's or a boy's name?
Preslie is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 34 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Preslie in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,171st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 34 about 1 in 47,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 44% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 34 girls in the US were named Preslie, making it the 4,171st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,221st. Its busiest year was 2014, with 118 girls. It first appears in the records in 1990.
Half of all the girls named Preslie in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,635 girls in the US were given Preslie or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #222, up from #4,171 for this spelling alone.
Preslie in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #4,171 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,770 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,386 |
| 2022 | 36 | #4,039 |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,503 |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,221 |
| 2019 | 58 | #2,856 |
| 2018 | 47 | #3,345 |
| 2017 | 54 | #3,014 |
| 2016 | 79 | #2,366 |
| 2015 | 77 | #2,382 |
| 2014 | 118 | #1,757 |
| 2013 | 97 | #2,002 |
| 2012 | 95 | #2,028 |
| 2011 | 95 | #2,043 |
| 2010 | 103 | #1,942 |
| 2009 | 106 | #1,956 |
| 2008 | 76 | #2,485 |
| 2007 | 103 | #1,988 |
| 2006 | 76 | #2,438 |
| 2005 | 49 | #3,166 |
| 2004 | 43 | #3,440 |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,228 |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,650 |
| 2001 | 43 | #3,194 |
| 2000 | 23 | #4,976 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,233 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,068 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,815 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,766 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,636 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,313 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,045 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,711 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,247 |
| 1990 | 10 | #7,874 |
Names like Preslie
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ellie, Parker, Peyton, Harper, Macie, Promise, Journee, Hadley, Hallie, Willow, Haven, Lyric
Other spellings of Preslie
Names related to Preslie
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Grace, Violet, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hazel, Carter, Harrison
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, “Preslie: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/preslie, updated 20 October 2026.