Presley — #224 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Presley

The Social Security Administration has registered 30,411 babies named Presley between 1977 and 2024, spanning 48 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Presley currently holds the #224 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 1,743 babies received it in a single year. Presley is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 4,857 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Presley performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 15,347 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Presley shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 4,553 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Tennessee. In total, SSA state-level files list Presley in 47 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Presley in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 30,411 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.