Prestyn
- Gender
- Unisex
- Say it
- PRES-tin
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #8,906 for boys
Unisex
Prestyn is a name of English origin, meaning “priest's town”. In 2025 it ranked 8,906th for boys in the US (8 babies).
What does Prestyn mean?
English: spelling of Preston, an English place name
“priest's town”
Is Prestyn a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Prestyn has been given to both girls and boys. In 2025, it was given to 17 girls and 8 boys in the US.
How popular is Prestyn in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,906among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 8about 1 in 210,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 51% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 8 boys in the US were named Prestyn, making it the 8,906th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,200th. Its busiest year was 2008, with 59 boys. It first appears in the records in 1996. 17 girls were also named Prestyn in 2025 (6,545th for girls).
It has been given to fewer boys each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer boys named Prestyn than any year since 1999.
Half of all the boys named Prestyn in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,139 boys in the US were given Prestyn or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #307, up from #8,906 for this spelling alone.
- Preston 1,131
- Prestyn 8
Girls were 15% of the babies named Prestyn in the US in 2006, and 39% in 2023.
Prestyn in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #8,906 |
| 2024 | 14 | #6,194 |
| 2023 | 23 | #4,452 |
| 2022 | 27 | #3,992 |
| 2021 | 20 | #4,776 |
| 2020 | 35 | #3,200 |
| 2019 | 28 | #3,791 |
| 2018 | 29 | #3,704 |
| 2017 | 40 | #2,950 |
| 2016 | 52 | #2,437 |
| 2015 | 28 | #3,774 |
| 2014 | 35 | #3,152 |
| 2013 | 42 | #2,761 |
| 2012 | 42 | #2,810 |
| 2011 | 48 | #2,546 |
| 2010 | 53 | #2,374 |
| 2009 | 58 | #2,251 |
| 2008 | 59 | #2,236 |
| 2007 | 46 | #2,643 |
| 2006 | 39 | #2,880 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,819 |
| 2004 | 25 | #3,632 |
| 2003 | 22 | #3,833 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,048 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,383 |
| 2000 | 9 | #6,832 |
| 1999 | 6 | #8,697 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,553 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,008 |
Names like Prestyn
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hudson Easton Paxton Jackson Boston Colson Stetson Grayson Holden Peyton Beckett Dawson
Other spellings of Prestyn
Names related to Prestyn
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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, “Prestyn: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/prestyn, updated 20 October 2026.