Meaning not yet researched.
Chelsea: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 319 in 2025. Its best rank was #15 in 1992.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #15 in 1992; #851 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Chelsea in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#851 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1992, at #15.
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Chelsea: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 319 girls in 2025. Peak: #15 in 1992 · most girls in one year: 16,177 (1992).
In 2025, 319 US girls were named Chelsea, making it the 851st most common girls’ name of the year, down 64 places from #787 in 2024. That is 39 fewer than the 358 girls named Chelsea in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #15, reached in 1992. That year also had the most girls given the name: 16,177. For comparison, it was #309 in 2015 and #4,821 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Chelsea in 88 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1910 with 5 babies. In all, 163,335 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 84,969 babies named Chelsea.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,385 US girls were named Chelsea; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 933. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,038 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Chelsea ranked highest in Illinois in 2025, at #524 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Chelsey (31,563 babies since 1880), Chelsie (13,855 babies since 1880), Chelsee (1,742 babies since 1880) and Chelsi (4,050 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Chelsia, Chelcee and Chealsea are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Chels and Chelsie.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Chelsia (387), Chelcee (238), Chealsea (225), Chelsei (161), Chelcey (152), Chellsea (141), Chealsey (128), Chelsye (114), Chelcea (67), Khelsea (58), Chellsey (52), Khelsey (25), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 35 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 19 | #524 | #302 |
| North Carolina | 20 | #543 | #314 |
| Washington | 12 | #549 | #357 |
| New York | 29 | #569 | #192 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #582 | #291 |
| New Jersey | 12 | #627 | #171 |
| California | 48 | #647 | #210 |
| Maryland | 7 | #676 | #213 |
| Florida | 24 | #696 | #305 |
| Utah | 5 | #730 | #570 |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #772 | #287 |
| Georgia | 12 | #811 | #260 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #816 | #532 |
| Texas | 30 | #957 | #309 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,068 | #244 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,314 | #444 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 319 | #851 | — | — |
| 2024 | 358 | #787 | — | — |
| 2023 | 397 | #712 | — | — |
| 2022 | 424 | #693 | — | — |
| 2021 | 466 | #635 | — | — |
| 2020 | 449 | #644 | — | — |
| 2019 | 557 | #547 | — | — |
| 2018 | 664 | #471 | 5 | #12,515 |
| 2017 | 818 | #381 | — | — |
| 2016 | 933 | #354 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,057 | #309 | 6 | #10,924 |
| 2014 | 1,196 | #275 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,179 | #271 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,356 | #235 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,425 | #222 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,417 | #223 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,429 | #232 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,518 | #222 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,644 | #209 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,824 | #192 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,734 | #200 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,752 | #195 | 11 | #6,597 |
| 2003 | 1,838 | #176 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,785 | #179 | 7 | #8,608 |
| 2001 | 2,120 | #153 | — | — |
| 2000 | 2,380 | #140 | — | — |
| 1999 | 2,725 | #122 | 8 | #7,256 |
| 1998 | 3,518 | #94 | 7 | #7,697 |
| 1997 | 4,461 | #73 | 7 | #7,407 |
| 1996 | 5,864 | #55 | 9 | #6,069 |
| 1995 | 6,761 | #47 | 14 | #4,313 |
| 1994 | 7,718 | #38 | 14 | #4,330 |
| 1993 | 11,287 | #25 | 18 | #3,522 |
| 1992 | 16,177 | #15 | 22 | #3,018 |
| 1991 | 13,509 | #18 | 32 | #2,237 |
| 1990 | 12,785 | #24 | 33 | #2,180 |
| 1989 | 11,252 | #27 | 49 | #1,620 |
| 1988 | 8,879 | #33 | 30 | #2,092 |
| 1987 | 6,631 | #47 | 22 | #2,482 |
| 1986 | 3,753 | #73 | 19 | #2,699 |
| 1985 | 3,613 | #75 | 18 | #2,731 |
| 1984 | 3,530 | #84 | 18 | #2,627 |
| 1983 | 2,708 | #102 | 12 | #3,434 |
| 1982 | 1,715 | #170 | 8 | #4,660 |
| 1981 | 542 | #408 | — | — |
| 1980 | 540 | #412 | 5 | #6,404 |
| 1979 | 443 | #458 | 7 | #4,921 |
| 1978 | 505 | #410 | 7 | #4,629 |
| 1977 | 482 | #421 | — | — |
| 1976 | 441 | #442 | 6 | #5,025 |
| 1975 | 351 | #509 | 6 | #4,896 |
| 1974 | 377 | #474 | — | — |
| 1973 | 240 | #631 | — | — |
| 1972 | 218 | #678 | — | — |
| 1971 | 202 | #740 | — | — |
| 1970 | 226 | #692 | — | — |
| 1969 | 201 | #702 | — | — |
| 1968 | 42 | #1,835 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,129 | — | — |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,933 | — | — |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,363 | — | — |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,075 | — | — |
| 1963 | 6 | #5,979 | — | — |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,701 | — | — |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,497 | — | — |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,111 | — | — |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,482 | — | — |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #4,028 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,731 | — | — |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,680 | — | — |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,821 | — | — |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,506 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,728 | — | — |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,310 | — | — |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,518 | — | — |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,664 | 5 | #4,089 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,926 | — | — |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,960 | — | — |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,522 | — | — |
| 1924 | — | — | 6 | #3,954 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,079 | — | — |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,405 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,946 | 7 | #3,460 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,937 | 6 | #3,798 |
| 1916 | — | — | 7 | #3,229 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,492 | — | — |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,340 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,472 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).