Fewer than five US girls were named Chelse in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #1,897, reached in 1992. That year also had the most girls given the name: 74. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Chelse in 31 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 9 babies. In all, 838 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 456 babies named Chelse.
In none of the 10 years from 2016 to 2025 were five or more US girls named Chelse.
Rarer spellings such as Chealse are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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