Chelsi

Where Chelsi comes from

Chelsi hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1969
    First appearance
    #7,471 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1973
    Chelsi Smith born
    actress, singer, Miss USA 1995 and Miss Universe 1995
  3. 1991
    Peak, #648
    339 babies named Chelsi — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1997
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,475.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Chelsi Smith · actress, singer, Miss USA 1995 and Miss Universe 1995, 1973–2018

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.