Chelsey
#6,325 for girls in 2025, 18 births · Last seen for boys in 1992 at #7,422
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1992 · 2,880 births
- Debut · girls
- 13 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 31,498since 1969
Chelsey over time
Rank among girls' names. Chelsey has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,325 | 18 | — | |
| 2024 | #5,443 | 23 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,709 | 41 | — | |
| 2022 | #4,378 | 32 | — | |
| 2021 | #3,390 | 46 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,399 | 45 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,451 | 72 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,647 | 65 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,257 | 83 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,956 | 102 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,711 | 123 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,552 | 140 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,502 | 147 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,416 | 161 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,292 | 182 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,180 | 206 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,091 | 233 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,014 | 260 | — | |
| 2007 | #826 | 347 | — | |
| 2006 | #797 | 342 | — | |
| 2005 | #798 | 325 | — | |
| 2004 | #739 | 356 | — | |
| 2003 | #687 | 380 | — | |
| 2002 | #605 | 423 | — | |
| 2001 | #541 | 491 | — | |
| 2000 | #475 | 580 | — | |
| 1999 | #432 | 638 | — | |
| 1998 | #348 | 832 | — | |
| 1997 | #263 | 1,099 | — | |
| 1996 | #223 | 1,285 | — | |
| 1995 | #206 | 1,408 | — | |
| 1994 | #178 | 1,655 | — | |
| 1993 | #145 | 2,154 | — | |
| 1992 | #117 | 2,880 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | #129 | 2,440 | — | |
| 1990 | #128 | 2,447 | #5,382 | 9 |
| 1989 | #140 | 2,202 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | #149 | 1,878 | #3,203 | 16 |
| 1987 | #186 | 1,477 | #5,459 | 7 |
| 1986 | #303 | 808 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #300 | 815 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #322 | 729 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | #403 | 535 | — | |
| 1982 | #569 | 322 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,528 | 78 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,460 | 83 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,394 | 88 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,397 | 83 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,576 | 68 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,638 | 60 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,963 | 45 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,801 | 49 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,309 | 33 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,451 | 29 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,801 | 25 | — | |
| 1970 | #3,577 | 17 | — | |
| 1969 | #3,958 | 13 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Chelsey! It came in at #3,958, and was given to 13 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1969–1970, when fewer than 18 girls a year got the name.
See more about Chelsey
- 882 spots since 2024 (#5,443 → #6,325)
- 2,926 spots since 2020 (#3,399 → #6,325)
- 4,614 spots since 2015 (#1,711 → #6,325)
- Biggest jump: 959 spots in 1982 (#1,528 → #569)
- Biggest drop: 188 spots in 2008 (#826 → #1,014)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 1992 at #117 (2,880 births)
- Births halved by 1995, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 26 yrs · run 1982–2007
- Highest: 1 in 640 girls born in 1992 were named Chelsey (0.16%)
- Latest: 1 in 89,293 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 53.5% of all girls named Chelsey (16,838) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 13 | #3,958 (1969) | #3,958 |
| 1970s | 497 | #1,394 (1979) | #2,091 |
| 1980s | 8,927 | #140 (1989) | #536 |
| 1990s | 16,838 | #117 (1992) | #217 |
| 2000s | 3,737 | #475 (2000) | #757 |
| 2010s | 1,281 | #1,180 (2010) | #1,796 |
| 2020s | 205 | #3,390 (2021) | #4,441 |
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.
Chelsey in 1987
Top girls' names in 1987
Top boys' names in 1987
More about 1987
girls
1,738,632 girls got a published name in 1987; 1 in 1,177 of them was named Chelsey, which outranked 98.6% of the 13,263 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,866,984 boys got a published name in 1987; 1 in 266,712 of them was named Chelsey, which outranked 33.0% of the 8,152 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,968Zamir8
- #4,968Zeshan8
- #4,968Zoltan8
- #5,459Chelsey7
- #5,459Abdur7
- #5,459Acey7
- #5,459Adama7
- #6,089Aamir6
- #6,089Aaryn6
- #6,089Abayomi6
Tied with 629 names at #5,459; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.