girls:
29k births since 1977
#836 (85th percentile)
boys:
4.8k births since 1880
#1745 (62nd percentile)
overall:
33.8k births since 1880
#1370 (82nd percentile)
The name Presley is the #1,370 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 33,792 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 82.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 82.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #836 (85.4% percentile) for all time with 29,030 births since 1977. For boys, it ranks #1,745 (61.9% percentile) for all time with 4,762 births since 1880.
Presley has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1977 for girls). Birth data for Presley is available in 125 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (125 years for boys and 40 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Presley has been given predominantly to girls, with 85.9% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 93.6% of babies named Presley were girls. Interestingly, until around 1990, the name was more popular for boys (96.2% boys from 1880 to 1989), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (89.6% girls from 1990 to 2023).
For girls, Presley reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 80.8% percentile (ranked #186) with 891 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 891 births per million (ranked 80.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Presley is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #189 (80.1% percentile) with 867 births per million.
For boys, Presley reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 17.2% percentile (ranked #746) with 75 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 75 births per million (ranked 17.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Presley ranks #812 for boys (10.9% percentile) with 57 births per million, which is 75.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Presley".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Presley. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 83.7% confident that Presley is pronounced as PREH-slee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is PREHZ-lee, at 16.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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