as a Last Name
- 50,941
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Preston
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from any of the extremely numerous places (most notably one in Lancashire) so called from Old English prēost ‘priest’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; the meaning may have been either ‘village with a priest’ or ‘village held by the Church’.
| 674th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 50,941
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Virgin Island
- has the most people named Preston per capita
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