Entry № 8305 · English origin

Presley Presley — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PREZ-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Priest's clearing (Elvis Presley's surname; Lisa Marie Presley)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "priest's clearing (elvis presley's surname; lisa marie presley)".

Presley is from the Old English prēost-lēah — "priest's meadow / clearing." A top-100 US baby name since 2014, peaking at #80 in 2017. Presley Walker — Make-A-Wish spokesperson. Graceland in Memphis is the second-most-visited private home in the US after the White House. Priscilla Presley (born 1945) — Elvis's widow; the 2023 Sofia Coppola film Priscilla starring Cailee Spaeny was nominated at Venice (Volpi Cup for Best Actress).

Priest's clearing (Elvis Presley's surname; Lisa Marie Presley) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Presley
Transliteration
Presley
Pronunciation
/ ˈprɛz.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Presley stands.

Presley does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Presleys before her.

Real people
Elvis Presley
King of Rock and Roll (surname).
1935 – 1977
Lisa Marie Presley
American singer (daughter of Elvis).
1968 – 2023
Priscilla Presley
American actress (Elvis's widow).
born 1945
In fiction
Presley
Various American culture.

Names connected to Presley.

The number behind Presley.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Presley reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.