Pressley

This name composed of two elements: from late Latin “presbyter,” from Ancient Greek “presbúteros (πρεσβύτερος)” from “présbus (πρέσβυς),” meaning “elder, older” plus “lēah” (a woodland, a clearing “especially one used for farming,” a meadow). In turn, the name means “wise farmer.” It is both a surname and a given name. It made its way across the border to that country, then on to Ireland and the United States. The surname came to prominence in the person of Elvis Presley, the American music icon. Still, the surname appertaining to him is documentable not to be a British Presley / Pressley / Pressly of any similar spelling, but rather a Preslar / Presler, from now present-day Germany.