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

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Peak · girls
1992 · 2,880 births
Debut · girls
13 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
31,498
since 1969

Chelsey over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Chelsey has never cracked the top 100 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201999peak #117, 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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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#6,32518
2024#5,44323
2023#3,70941
2022#4,37832
2021#3,39046
2020#3,39945
2019#2,45172
2018#2,64765
2017#2,25783
2016#1,956102
2015#1,711123
2014#1,552140
2013#1,502147
2012#1,416161
2011#1,292182
2010#1,180206
2009#1,091233
2008#1,014260
2007#826347
2006#797342
2005#798325
2004#739356
2003#687380
2002#605423
2001#541491
2000#475580
1999#432638
1998#348832
1997#2631,099
1996#2231,285
1995#2061,408
1994#1781,655
1993#1452,154
1992#1172,880#7,4226
1991#1292,440
1990#1282,447#5,3829
1989#1402,202#5,6158
1988#1491,878#3,20316
1987#1861,477#5,4597
1986#303808#6,7215
1985#300815#5,1477
1984#322729#4,9737
1983#403535
1982#569322
1981#1,52878
1980#1,46083
1979#1,39488
1978#1,39783
1977#1,57668
1976#1,63860
1975#1,96345
1974#1,80149
1973#2,30933
1972#2,45129
1971#2,80125
1970#3,57717
1969#3,95813
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First appearance
1969

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
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 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)
Rise & fade · girls
23 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1969
  • Peaked 1992 at #117 (2,880 births)
  • Births halved by 1995, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 26 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 26 yrs · run 1982–2007
Share of babies · girls
1 in 640
  • Highest: 1 in 640 girls born in 1992 were named Chelsey (0.16%)
  • Latest: 1 in 89,293 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1990s
  • 53.5% of all girls named Chelsey (16,838) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s13#3,958 (1969)#3,958
1970s497#1,394 (1979)#2,091
1980s8,927#140 (1989)#536
1990s16,838#117 (1992)#217
2000s3,737#475 (2000)#757
2010s1,281#1,180 (2010)#1,796
2020s205#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 1999

girls
#432
638 births · 1 in 2,780 girls

Top girls' names in 1999

  1. #1Emily26,542
  2. #2Hannah21,679
  3. #3Alexis19,237
  4. #4Sarah19,119
  5. #5Samantha19,044
  6. #6Ashley18,136
  7. #7Madison18,054
  8. #8Taylor16,906
  9. #9Jessica16,350
  10. #10Elizabeth15,350
  11. #432Chelsey638
More about 1999

girls

1,773,823 girls got a published name in 1999; 1 in 2,780 of them was named Chelsey, which outranked 97.5% of the 16,947 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Chelsey
  1. #429Jaclyn646
  2. #429Janet646
  3. #431Bailee641
  4. #432Chelsey638
  5. #433Alyson635
  6. #433Noelle635
  7. #435Eliza631
Biggest movers since 1998
Risers
  1. 1,407Citlalli#2,338#931
  2. 1,329Noelia#2,048#719
  3. 1,060Amaya#1,458#398
  4. 864Kyara#1,789#925
  5. 604Journey#1,557#953
Fallers
  1. 579Erykah#779#1,358
  2. 417Tea#747#1,164
  3. 415Tasia#800#1,215
  4. 406Monika#930#1,336
  5. 357Chase#952#1,309

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

See the top 100 for 1999