Pressley

12,622 people in the United States were counted with the surname Pressley in the 2020 census, making it the 2,781st most common in the country. That is about one person in 23,700.

By the numbers

People: 12,622
Rank: 2,781st
How common: 1 in 23,700
Per 100,000: 4.2

Where the name comes from

A variant of Presley.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Pressley described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 51.9%
Black, not Hispanic 40.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Pressley

Ayanna Pressley (born 1974)U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
Steven Pressley (born 1973)Scottish association football manager

People named Pressley with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Pressley

Also a first name

Pressley has been given to 872 American babies as a first name since 1912, peaking in 2007. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.