Prestyn
Prestyn is given to both girls and boys: 17 girls and 8 boys were given it in 2025 (#6,762 among girls’ names and #9,483 among boys’, #9,009 among all names counting both); 1,164 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,150 Americans named Prestyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Prestyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Prestyn?
#9,483 among boys’ names, 2025
Prestyn fell from #3,849 in 2015 to #9,483 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.6 to 4.7 per million.
67 babies in 2009, the peak
Prestyn peaked in 2009, when 67 babies were given it (58 boys, #2,277 among boys’ names). The 25 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 37% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,762 | 8 | #9,483 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,318 | 14 | #6,398 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,554 | 23 | #4,572 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,552 | 27 | #4,063 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,697 | 20 | #4,890 |
| 2020 | 20 | #6,024 | 35 | #3,253 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,361 | 28 | #3,868 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,580 | 29 | #3,763 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,472 | 40 | #2,993 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,759 | 52 | #2,464 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #6,195 | 28 | #3,849 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,563 | 35 | #3,197 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,298 | 42 | #2,795 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,849 | 42 | #2,856 |
| 2011 | 13 | #9,029 | 48 | #2,579 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,663 | 53 | #2,389 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,210 | 58 | #2,277 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,014 | 59 | #2,251 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,645 | 46 | #2,673 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,757 | 39 | #2,917 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,731 | 17 | #4,975 |
| 2004 | under 5 | 25 | #3,716 | |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,732 | 22 | #3,935 |
| 2002 | under 5 | 9 | #7,472 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 13 | #5,590 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 9 | #7,248 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 6 | #9,578 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 7 | #8,222 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 5 | #10,133 |
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 Prestyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,164 Americans recorded as Prestyn, 28% are girls and 72% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Prestyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Prestyn, and how old are they?
1,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,164 Americans ever recorded as Prestyn. The median Prestyn alive today is 13 years old; half are between 8 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 825 people named Prestyn (217 women and girls, 608 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 941 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 541 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 607 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 126,261 babies since 1880, Prestyn is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 1,166 babies (2.1%), again the second 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 Prestyn
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Prestyn and names like it
- Compare Prestyn and PrestonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sPrestyn peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Prestyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Prestyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Prestyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with PMost given first.