Meaning not yet researched.
Chelsey: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 18 in 2025. Its best rank was #117 in 1992.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #117 in 1992; #6,370 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Chelsey in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,370 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1992, at #117.
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Chelsey: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 18 girls in 2025. Peak: #117 in 1992 · most girls in one year: 2,880 (1992).
In 2025, 18 US girls were named Chelsey, making it the 6,370th most common girls’ name of the year, down 886 places from #5,484 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 23 girls named Chelsey in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #117, reached in 1992. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,880. For comparison, it was #1,712 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Chelsey in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 13 babies. In all, 31,563 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 16,853 babies named Chelsey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 527 US girls were named Chelsey; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 102. In 2025 that was about 1 in 89,293 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Chelsea (163,335 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 Chelcy and Chealsy are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Chelsie.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Chelcy (183), Chealsy (37).
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.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,370 | — | — |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,484 | — | — |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,720 | — | — |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,397 | — | — |
| 2021 | 46 | #3,400 | — | — |
| 2020 | 45 | #3,406 | — | — |
| 2019 | 72 | #2,457 | — | — |
| 2018 | 65 | #2,654 | — | — |
| 2017 | 83 | #2,261 | — | — |
| 2016 | 102 | #1,959 | — | — |
| 2015 | 123 | #1,712 | — | — |
| 2014 | 140 | #1,558 | — | — |
| 2013 | 147 | #1,502 | — | — |
| 2012 | 161 | #1,418 | — | — |
| 2011 | 182 | #1,294 | — | — |
| 2010 | 206 | #1,181 | — | — |
| 2009 | 233 | #1,094 | — | — |
| 2008 | 260 | #1,014 | — | — |
| 2007 | 347 | #827 | — | — |
| 2006 | 342 | #799 | — | — |
| 2005 | 325 | #798 | — | — |
| 2004 | 356 | #739 | — | — |
| 2003 | 380 | #688 | — | — |
| 2002 | 423 | #605 | — | — |
| 2001 | 491 | #542 | — | — |
| 2000 | 580 | #475 | — | — |
| 1999 | 638 | #432 | — | — |
| 1998 | 832 | #348 | — | — |
| 1997 | 1,099 | #263 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1,285 | #223 | — | — |
| 1995 | 1,408 | #206 | — | — |
| 1994 | 1,655 | #178 | — | — |
| 1993 | 2,154 | #145 | — | — |
| 1992 | 2,880 | #117 | 6 | #7,571 |
| 1991 | 2,440 | #129 | — | — |
| 1990 | 2,447 | #128 | 9 | #5,450 |
| 1989 | 2,202 | #140 | 8 | #5,718 |
| 1988 | 1,878 | #149 | 16 | #3,233 |
| 1987 | 1,477 | #186 | 7 | #5,583 |
| 1986 | 808 | #303 | 5 | #6,898 |
| 1985 | 815 | #300 | 7 | #5,236 |
| 1984 | 729 | #322 | 7 | #5,063 |
| 1983 | 535 | #404 | — | — |
| 1982 | 322 | #569 | — | — |
| 1981 | 78 | #1,531 | — | — |
| 1980 | 83 | #1,460 | — | — |
| 1979 | 88 | #1,398 | — | — |
| 1978 | 83 | #1,397 | — | — |
| 1977 | 68 | #1,578 | — | — |
| 1976 | 60 | #1,641 | — | — |
| 1975 | 45 | #1,966 | — | — |
| 1974 | 49 | #1,803 | — | — |
| 1973 | 33 | #2,313 | — | — |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,462 | — | — |
| 1971 | 25 | #2,813 | — | — |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,608 | — | — |
| 1969 | 13 | #3,979 | — | — |
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).