First name origin & meaning: Old English: Dweller at the church; priest's settlement First name variations: Prescott, Presley, Priestley, Priestly, Prestan, Presten, Prestin, Preston Last name origins & meanings:
- English (mainly West Midlands): from Middle English pr(i)est
‘minister of the Church’ (Old English prēost, from Latin
presbyter, Greek presbyteros ‘elder’, ‘counselor’,
comparative of presbys ‘old man’), used as a nickname, either
for someone with a pious manner or possibly for someone who had played
the part of a priest in a pageant. It may also have been an
occupational name for someone in the service of a priest, and
occasionally it may have been used to denote someone suspected of
being the son of a priest.
- A John Priest is recorded as being in Woburn, MA, as early as
1675. The Mayflower Pilgrim Digory Priest of Holland died the
first winter at Plymouth in 1620, leaving behind a widow who remarried
and two daughters, who did not pass on the family name.
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