Recorded 1880–2025 · United States
Presley was most popular in 2014, when 1,886 American babies were given the name — ranking #392 that year. In 2025 it ranked #464, with 1,450 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 36,723 people named Presley.
The Social Security Administration’s records begin in 1880, and Presley is already there in that first year — so the name is older than the record and these figures cannot date it. It has been recorded in 127 of the 146 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 36,723 American births named Presley between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 35,675 are estimated to be alive today.
1,450 American babies were named Presley in 2025, ranking #464 that year.
Presley is holding steady. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 1,501 births a year, against 1,740 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -14% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Presley is mostly a girl’s name — 86.5% of the 36,723 Americans given it were girls and 13.5% were boys. It changed hands: since 1990 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 93% girls and 7% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 35,675 Americans named Presley are alive today — 97% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 12 years old, and half are between 7 and 17. That is a narrow band because Presley is a young name — it only became common recently, so almost everyone carrying it is still a child or a young adult.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org