Preston
Recorded for both sexesMillennial2025 rank
#299
up +31 places
2025 births
1,131
up +83 births
All-time births
122,958
1% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2007
- 3,797 births
- Best rank
- #114
- in 2006
- First recorded
- 1880
- #243 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1989
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 146 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 20073,797#114Peak
- 20063,719#114
- 20093,465#120
- 20083,461#124
- 20103,108#131
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #114 in 2006 · peak births 3,797 in 2007
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 99% boys■ 1% girls
122,958 boys · 799 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Preston has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.