Given name & surname · also English
Preacher
Preacher is a masculine given name from English.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Preacher comes from English, and ultimately from Middle English.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2021. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Preacher through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 21
- 21 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,415 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,415 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 370 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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