Updated June 9, 2019

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Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : Dweller at the church; priest's settlement

Boy name variations

Preston

Preston

- 9% this year
Masculine
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Prescott

Prescott

+ 12% this year
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Presley

Presley

- 5% this year
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Priestley

Priestley

0 % this year
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Priestly

Priestly

0 % this year
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Prestan

Prestan

0 % this year
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Presten

Presten

- 33% this year
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Prestin

Prestin

- 25% this year
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How Popular Is The Name Priest

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (mainly West Midlands) : from Middle English pr(i)est ‘minister of the Church’ (Old English prēost, from Latin presbyter, Greek presbyteros ‘elder’, ‘counselor’, comparative of presbys ‘old man’), used as a nickname, either for someone with a pious manner or possibly for someone who had played the part of a priest in a pageant. It may also have been an occupational name for someone in the service of a priest, and occasionally it may have been used to denote someone suspected of being the son of a priest.
  • A John Priest is recorded as being in Woburn, MA, as early as 1675. The Mayflower Pilgrim Digory Priest of Holland died the first winter at Plymouth in 1620, leaving behind a widow who remarried and two daughters, who did not pass on the family name.