Meaning not yet researched.
Chesney: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 61 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,555 in 2005.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,555 in 2005; #2,785 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Chesney in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,785 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2005, at #1,555.
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Chesney: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 61 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,555 in 2005 · most girls in one year: 131 (2005).
In 2025, 61 US girls were named Chesney, making it the 2,785th most common girls’ name of the year, up 196 places from #2,981 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 55 girls named Chesney in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,555, reached in 2005. That year also had the most girls given the name: 131. For comparison, it was #2,627 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Chesney in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 7 babies. In all, 2,821 US babies have been given the name, 94% of them girls and 5.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 993 babies named Chesney.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 697 US girls were named Chesney; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 88. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,349 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Chesney ranked highest in Virginia in 2025, at #1,069 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Chesnee, Chesnie and Chezney 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Chesnee (228), Chesnie (169), Chezney (167), Chesni (82).
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 Chesney in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 6 | #1,069 | — |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,165 | — |
| Texas | 6 | #3,004 | #2,965 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | #2,785 | — | — |
| 2024 | 55 | #2,981 | 11 | #7,346 |
| 2023 | 66 | #2,651 | — | — |
| 2022 | 79 | #2,351 | — | — |
| 2021 | 83 | #2,234 | — | — |
| 2020 | 62 | #2,691 | — | — |
| 2019 | 64 | #2,687 | 7 | #9,934 |
| 2018 | 58 | #2,880 | 9 | #8,282 |
| 2017 | 81 | #2,288 | 9 | #8,283 |
| 2016 | 88 | #2,193 | — | — |
| 2015 | 68 | #2,627 | 5 | #12,407 |
| 2014 | 74 | #2,447 | 10 | #7,649 |
| 2013 | 88 | #2,140 | 6 | #10,984 |
| 2012 | 92 | #2,083 | — | — |
| 2011 | 66 | #2,669 | 6 | #11,070 |
| 2010 | 76 | #2,457 | 10 | #7,685 |
| 2009 | 92 | #2,167 | 6 | #11,241 |
| 2008 | 89 | #2,222 | 7 | #10,045 |
| 2007 | 91 | #2,183 | 9 | #8,297 |
| 2006 | 110 | #1,851 | 5 | #12,363 |
| 2005 | 131 | #1,555 | 10 | #7,204 |
| 2004 | 114 | #1,702 | 15 | #5,296 |
| 2003 | 80 | #2,171 | 9 | #7,333 |
| 2002 | 85 | #2,032 | 5 | #10,948 |
| 2001 | 77 | #2,132 | 7 | #8,461 |
| 2000 | 51 | #2,824 | — | — |
| 1999 | 50 | #2,746 | — | — |
| 1998 | 63 | #2,253 | — | — |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,940 | — | — |
| 1996 | 47 | #2,635 | — | — |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,509 | — | — |
| 1994 | 29 | #3,717 | — | — |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,795 | — | — |
| 1992 | 44 | #2,742 | 6 | #7,572 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,366 | — | — |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,400 | 5 | #8,324 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,707 | — | — |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,687 | — | — |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,152 | — | — |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,769 | — | — |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,095 | — | — |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,265 | — | — |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,516 | — | — |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,379 | — | — |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,948 | — | — |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,285 | — | — |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,192 | — | — |
| 1978 | 13 | #4,978 | — | — |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,688 | — | — |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,130 | — | — |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,285 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,642 | — | — |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,462 | — | — |
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).