Prentis vs Presley
American parents have registered 36,723 Presleys since 1880, against 1,260 Prentises. Presley is still ahead, with 1,450 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Prentis Presley
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 129 years in which either name was published, Presley for 102 years and Prentis for 27 years. The lead changed hands 34 times.
- 1880–1924 Presley ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1925–1927 Prentis ahead
- 1930–1932 Presley ahead
- 1942–1945 Prentis ahead
- 1950–2025 Presley ahead, apart from 3 short spells
26 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Prentis | Presley | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,260 | 36,723 |
| Most in one year | 27 | 1,886 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 1,450 |
| Estimated living today | 650 | 36,000 |
| Median age today | 55 | 11 |
| Peak year | 1942 | 2014 |
| Best rank | 1,334th boys | 190th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 225th |
| First recorded | 1904 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 1,260 | 31,778 / 4,945 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Prentises alive today are over 55; half the Presleys are over 11. That is 44 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Prentis and Presley.