PRESTON: Origin of last name and genealogy

Publish date: 2024-05-05

All you have to know about the last name PRESTON

Last name frequency

PRESTON : This last name is indexed 327,155 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

PRESTON : English:: 1: habitational name from one of the many places (most notably one in Lancashire) so called from Old English prēost ‘priest’ + tūn ‘farmstead estate’.2: occasionally from Middle English prest + son ‘son of the priest’. Priests were forbidden marriage but many produced illegitimate offspring.

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Variants of last name

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