Chelse

Last seen for girls in 2010 at #16,992

Peak · girls
1992 · 74 births
Debut · girls
9 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
838
since 1974

Chelse over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Chelse has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201974peak #1,894, 1992girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2010#16,9925
2009#15,2426
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2007#10,12911
2006#17,1685
2005#11,8348
2004#8,71612
2003#9,04811
2002#9,48210
2001#6,06718
2000#8,02712
1999#7,23913
1998#4,36625
1997#4,37024
1996#3,50532
1995#3,02238
1994#2,25558
1993#2,15262
1992#1,89474
1991#1,93372
1990#2,20158
1989#2,02762
1988#2,07156
1987#2,72336
1986#4,34718
1985#3,17028
1984#2,85131
1983#4,28617
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First appearance
1974

The first year at least five girls were named Chelse! It came in at #5,776, and was given to 9 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1975, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Chelse
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2010
Rise & fade · girls
18 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1974
  • Peaked 1992 at #1,894 (74 births)
  • Births halved by 1996, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 24,918
  • Highest: 1 in 24,918 girls born in 1992 were named Chelse (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 355,519 girls born in 2010 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1990s
  • 54.4% of all girls named Chelse (456) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s17#5,776 (1974)#6,194
1980s267#2,027 (1989)#3,850
1990s456#1,894 (1992)#3,294
2000s93#6,067 (2001)#10,635
2010s5#16,992 (2010)#16,992

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Chelse in 1974

girls
#5,776
9 births · 1 in 163,059 girls

Top girls' names in 1974

  1. #1Jennifer63,107
  2. #2Amy29,566
  3. #3Michelle25,826
  4. #4Heather23,179
  5. #5Angela22,803
  6. #6Kimberly22,427
  7. #7Melissa22,166
  8. #8Lisa19,778
  9. #9Stephanie16,984
  10. #10Rebecca15,163
  11. #5,776Chelse9
More about 1974

girls

1,467,534 girls got a published name in 1974; 1 in 163,059 of them was named Chelse, which outranked 43.6% of the 10,247 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Chelse
  1. #5,360Zanita10
  2. #5,360Zenda10
  3. #5,360Zola10
  4. #5,776Chelse9
  5. #5,776Ailie9
  6. #5,776Akita9
  7. #5,776Alaine9
  8. #6,258Abeer8
  9. #6,258Abigale8
  10. #6,258Ailene8

Tied with 481 names at #5,776; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1973
Risers
  1. 6,440Nakia#6,666#226
  2. 5,329Nikia#6,080#751
  3. 1,994Luciana#2,914#920
  4. 1,556Cortney#2,349#793
  5. 1,213Nia#1,885#672
Fallers
  1. 1,251Contina#962#2,213
  2. 396Pam#990#1,386
  3. 376Tracee#536#912
  4. 364Cher#760#1,124
  5. 314Richard#904#1,218

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1974