Given name & surname
Prescott
“from the priest's cottage”
Prescott is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “from the priest's cottage.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “from the priest's cottage.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Prescott through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,887
- 1,718 boys · 169 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 90 babies
- 2025
- 90
- #3,285 for girls · #2,972 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +27%
- Rising
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 48 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 3,285 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. It also appeared in 42 birth records for boys in 2025. In 2025, Florida and New York and Texas shared the largest reported state-level birth count for girls with this name (5 each). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,253 as a first name in 2020; 16,446 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.
Prescott’s family of names
Prescott has a related form in Preostcot. Prescott has a related form in Prescot. Prescott has a related form in Prestcot.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Prescott
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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