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Preston

Pronounced /ˈpɹɛs.tən/

Rank in 2024
#329
Born in 2024
1,045
Peak year
2007 · #114
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Cooling
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 1,045 boys were named Preston, about 1 in every 1,641.
  • It peaked in 2007 with 3,796 babies, ranked #114.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 121,812 boys have been named Preston since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Preston per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0.4
    Greatest
  2. 0.3
    Silent
  3. 0.3
    Boomers
  4. 0.3
    Gen X
  5. 0.7
    Millennials
  6. 1.4
    Gen Z
  7. 1.0
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 7,216 babies, 0.43 per 1,000. Silent: 6,699 babies, 0.32 per 1,000. Boomers: 9,479 babies, 0.25 per 1,000. Gen X: 8,687 babies, 0.32 per 1,000. Millennials: 20,492 babies, 0.67 per 1,000. Gen Z: 45,487 babies, 1.45 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 22,702 babies, 1.04 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Old English Prēostatūn, from prēosta (“priests'”, genitive plural) + tūn (“settlement”). Doublet of Prestatyn.

  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈpɹɛs.tən/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Preston, CC BY-SA 4.0.