Pressley
Girl · PREZ-lee · English
Pressley is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “priest's clearing”. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
What does Pressley mean?
English: spelling of Presley; surname, a variant of Priestley
“priest's clearing”
From an English surname, a variant of Priestley; Elvis Presley made it famous as a first name.
- Say it
- PREZ-lee
Meaning borrowed from Presley. More on Wiktionary.
Is Pressley a girl's or a boy's name?
Pressley is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Pressley in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #10,104among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9about 1 in 180,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 8% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the US were named Pressley, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,919th. Its busiest year was 2007, with 40 girls. It first appears in the records in 1993.
2025 had fewer girls named Pressley than any year since 2001.
Half of all the girls named Pressley in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,635 girls in the US were given Pressley or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #222, up from #10,104 for this spelling alone.
Pressley in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 26 | #4,996 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,626 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,019 |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,919 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,021 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,788 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,295 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,444 |
| 2015 | 28 | #4,852 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,655 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,315 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,484 |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,913 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,179 |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,106 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,127 |
| 2007 | 40 | #3,917 |
| 2006 | 22 | #5,904 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,325 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,711 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,575 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,274 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,514 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,152 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,132 |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,831 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,576 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,778 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,563 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,435 |
Names like Pressley
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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