Preacher

#13,411 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; English origin

Preacher has been given to 21 babies in the U.S. since 2021. In 2025 it ranked #13,411 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Preacher, 2025

1 in 663,000

Preacher over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Preacher: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; English origin

English

What Preacher means

Preacher is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Preacher is used in English. Its origins include English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 21 boys were recorded with the name Preacher between 2021 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2024; its best national rank was #11,991 in 2024.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Preacher?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 663,000; 5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 342,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #13,411; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 459,581 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Preacher sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Preacher. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Preachers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Preacher was born before 2024 — so the typical Preacher is around 1 today.

Median birth year: 2024; About 1 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 21; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (21).

Is Preacher rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: −1,420; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 83.3%; Peak was 2024 (6)
Years since peak: 1; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 18.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #11,991; 2024

Preacher around the world

Where Preacher ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

Canada
2021–2021
#2,989
in 2021

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Preacher by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #13,411
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #11,991; 2024
Peak year: 2024; 6 that year
First recorded: 2021
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 21
Count in 2025: 5

Names similar to Preacher

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Premier Precieux Prestige Prenell Reacher Preetham Mcauther Munther Premiere Pressure Dilsher President Prestan Casher Presiliano Preslee Precious Cleother Gallagher Mcarther Thacher Conagher Predrag Preetam

Sibling names for Preacher

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Annabell Abagail Shyann Halie Sydni Leonor Sydnie Karleigh

For a brother

Aaden Kale Evans Hamilton Caesar Brennen Tobin Jerimiah

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