Last Name PRESTON

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Meaning	Local: Of Preston. No less than twenty-four parishes, situated in every part of England, bear this name in the index of Crockford. No wonder the surname is so popular. Local: from the town of Preston in Haddingtonshire. The family are descended from Leolphus de Preston, 1165. Local: A town in Lancashire, England. The town in the coppice, or the bushy hill, from 'Prys' and 'ton;' also, 'Preston,' the town where brass is found or manufactured, from 'Pres,' brass, Welsh.

Origin	English, Scottish, Jewish, Irish, Belgian, Zimbabwean

Rank	681 (2000 US census)	639 (1990 US census)

Count	45,850 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

75.24%, or 34498 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
19.95%, or 9147 total occurrences, as black,
0.45%, or 206 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.99%, or 454 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.62%, or 743 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.75%, or 802 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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