Pressley
Pressley was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,716 among girls’ names; 872 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Pressley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Pressley?
#10,716 among girls’ names, 2025
Pressley fell from #4,946 in 2015 to #10,716 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.7 to 5.6 per million.
40 babies in 2007, the peak
Pressley peaked in 2007, when 40 girls were given it, #3,963 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,716 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 10 | #10,081 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,090 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,936 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,356 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,146 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,258 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 17 | #7,031 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,666 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,568 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #4,946 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,741 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,445 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,574 | 5 | #13,719 |
| 2011 | 28 | #5,025 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,280 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,170 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,307 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 40 | #3,963 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,079 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,737 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,138 | 5 | #12,742 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,893 | 5 | #12,269 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,692 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,873 | 10 | #6,798 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,471 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,220 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,060 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,760 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,281 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,935 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,438 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,133 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 5 | #9,240 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 6 | #6,736 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 5 | #7,048 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 6 | #5,873 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 7 | #3,549 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 7 | #3,579 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 5 | #4,430 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 6 | #3,880 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 9 | #2,921 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 7 | #3,308 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 9 | #2,725 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 5 | #4,085 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 10 | #2,627 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 5 | #3,898 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 7 | #2,932 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 7 | #3,055 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 6 | #3,480 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 5 | #3,888 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 8 | #2,819 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 6 | #3,399 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 6 | #3,566 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 9 | #2,704 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 7 | #3,328 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 9 | #2,958 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 9 | #2,918 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 7 | #3,628 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 8 | #3,379 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 6 | #4,080 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 7 | #3,657 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 8 | #3,438 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 8 | #3,396 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 6 | #4,203 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 8 | #3,435 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 10 | #2,918 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 6 | #4,059 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 8 | #3,305 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 10 | #2,577 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 6 | #2,729 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 5 | #2,827 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Pressley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 872 Americans recorded as Pressley, 66% are girls and 34% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Pressley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Pressley, and how old are they?
An estimated 674 Americans named Pressley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 11 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 771 people named Pressley (541 women and girls, 230 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 612 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Pressley?
Pressley is a less common spelling of Presley: SSA has recorded 872 Pressley and 36,723 Presley since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 41,746 babies since 1880, Pressley is the third most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 1,601 babies (<1%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Pressley
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Bela | 1,295 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Pressley and names like it
- Compare Pressley and PresleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sPressley peaked in 2007.
- South Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Pressley since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Pressley.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Pressley alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with PMost given first.