Meaning not yet researched.
Chelsie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 18 in 2025. Its best rank was #227 in 1992.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #227 in 1992; #6,371 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Chelsie in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,371 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1992, at #227.
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Chelsie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 18 girls in 2025. Peak: #227 in 1992 · most girls in one year: 1,223 (1992).
In 2025, 18 US girls were named Chelsie, making it the 6,371st most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,300 places from #7,671 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 14 girls named Chelsie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #227, reached in 1992. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,223. For comparison, it was #2,718 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Chelsie in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1936 with 5 babies. In all, 13,855 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 7,198 babies named Chelsie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 238 US girls were named Chelsie; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 35. 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), Chelsey (31,563 babies since 1880), Chelsee (1,742 babies since 1880) and Chelsi (4,050 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Chelci, Chellsie and Chealsie are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Chelci (236), Chellsie (70), Chealsie (44), Khelsi (8), Chelssie (6), Chelzie (6).
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.
No nicknames listed for Chelsie in the open dataset we use.
Chelsie is listed as a nickname for Chelsea, Chelsey.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,371 | — | — |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,671 | — | — |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,421 | — | — |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,199 | — | — |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,336 | — | — |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,516 | — | — |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,185 | — | — |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,348 | — | — |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,833 | — | — |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,178 | — | — |
| 2015 | 65 | #2,718 | — | — |
| 2014 | 65 | #2,692 | — | — |
| 2013 | 52 | #3,136 | — | — |
| 2012 | 89 | #2,135 | — | — |
| 2011 | 73 | #2,486 | — | — |
| 2010 | 96 | #2,061 | — | — |
| 2009 | 146 | #1,547 | — | — |
| 2008 | 105 | #1,992 | — | — |
| 2007 | 123 | #1,753 | — | — |
| 2006 | 155 | #1,444 | — | — |
| 2005 | 145 | #1,462 | — | — |
| 2004 | 145 | #1,429 | — | — |
| 2003 | 146 | #1,375 | — | — |
| 2002 | 137 | #1,406 | — | — |
| 2001 | 211 | #1,014 | — | — |
| 2000 | 208 | #1,014 | — | — |
| 1999 | 259 | #833 | — | — |
| 1998 | 355 | #650 | — | — |
| 1997 | 397 | #585 | — | — |
| 1996 | 520 | #473 | — | — |
| 1995 | 595 | #433 | — | — |
| 1994 | 746 | #354 | — | — |
| 1993 | 999 | #277 | — | — |
| 1992 | 1,223 | #227 | — | — |
| 1991 | 1,090 | #256 | — | — |
| 1990 | 1,014 | #273 | — | — |
| 1989 | 1,006 | #266 | — | — |
| 1988 | 810 | #306 | — | — |
| 1987 | 640 | #367 | — | — |
| 1986 | 410 | #507 | — | — |
| 1985 | 364 | #547 | — | — |
| 1984 | 363 | #530 | — | — |
| 1983 | 266 | #647 | — | — |
| 1982 | 160 | #935 | — | — |
| 1981 | 51 | #2,033 | — | — |
| 1980 | 72 | #1,609 | — | — |
| 1979 | 48 | #2,091 | — | — |
| 1978 | 40 | #2,275 | — | — |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,845 | — | — |
| 1976 | 45 | #1,973 | — | — |
| 1975 | 38 | #2,202 | — | — |
| 1974 | 37 | #2,180 | — | — |
| 1973 | 27 | #2,639 | — | — |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,564 | — | — |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,149 | — | — |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,108 | — | — |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,220 | — | — |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,292 | — | — |
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).