Name meaning & stats
Preston
Preston means “priest's town”. 111,277 US babies since 1940, peak 2007.
What it means
“priest's town”
Well documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 2007
111,277 US babies were named Preston between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Preston (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
Preston is the main spelling
- Preston 98%
- Prestyn 1%
- Prestin 1%
- Presten 1%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2007)